7. Environmental liability ***II (vote)

Recommendation for second reading on the common position of the Council with a view to adopting a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage [10933/5/2003 - C5-0445/2003 - 2002/0021(COD)] - Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market. Rapporteur: Toine Manders (A5-0461/2003)

(Qualified majority)

(Voting record: Annex 1, Item 3)

COMMON POSITION OF THE COUNCIL

Declared approved as amended (P5_TA(2003)0575)

The following spoke:

Toine Manders(rapporteur) on the compromises it had not been possible to achieve.