European Parliament
President.
Question No 3 by Camilo Nogueira Román 
Subject: Erika legislative packages and the 1990 US Oil Pollution Act
In the wake of the accident involving the oil tanker the Erika and the series of accidents off the coast of Galicia such as those involving the Polycomander, the Aegean Sea, the Urquiola, and the Cason, why has the Council failed to provide in the two Erika legislative packages for the strict financial guarantees and safety measures required of shipowners and vessels under the 1990 Oil Pollution Act, which the United States was prompted to adopt following the Exxon Valdez accident?

