§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the European Community directives relating to the requirement to carry out(a) environmental impact assessments and (b) environmental audits, applying to areas of the seabed between member states of the European Union in circumstances where states assess environmental contamination may have arisen in a specific location. [3834]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThere are no EC directives requiring either environmental impact assessment or environmental audit for the seabed between member states388W in the specific circumstances where member states assess that environmental contamination of that seabed may have occurred.