The successive major environmental disasters caused by the Erika and Prestige shipwrecks, and the serious economic consequences they had, exposed the inadequate response capacity possessed by most Member States at present in the face of large-scale disasters.
The successive major environmental disasters caused by the Erika and Prestige shipwrecks, and the serious economic consequences they had, exposed the inadequate response capacity possessed by most Member States at present in the face of large-scale disasters.