2.2 mln euro funding programme for dealing with marine pollution

Mousouroulis noted that the funding programme for the current year was based on planning and not on piece-meal approval of expenditure as in the past.
The fundamental pillars of the programme will deal with extraordinary instances of marine pollution, averting and neutralising pollution that could result from shipwrecked and semi-submerged vessels during fuel removal operations, carrying out sample collection and lab analysis and boosting the mechanism for dealing with pollution.

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2013, the minister added, the infrastructures of the island and mainland port authorities have been beefed up, a broad network of collaboration with the Civil Protection secretariat general has been developed for the formulation of a national policy on dealing with pollution, with the focus on creating a stricter legislative framework.

He further stressed the need to intensify efforts all round on protecting the marine environment, through raising the public awareness on these matters.

Source: ΑΜΝΑ