Acordado en la reunión del Consejo de Ministros de Pesca. Los quince aprueban medidas de ayuda al sector afectado por los vertidos del ‘Prestige’ [Agreement reached at the Council of Fisheries Ministers. The fifteen approve aid measures for the sector affected by the oil spill from the ‘Prestige’]

The EU Council of Fisheries Ministers meeting in Brussels from 16-20 December 2002, agreed on a Regulation which would establish specific measures to compensate the Spanish fisheries sectors affected by the oil spill from the stricken tanker, 'The Prestige', which sank off the coast of Galicia in November 2002.

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