European Parliament 16 December 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-3605/02 by Helle Thorning-Schmidt (PSE)and Torben Lund (PSE) to the Commission. The euro and nickel allergy.

Under the Regulation finally adopted by the co-legislators, the Prestige would have been phased out by 15 March 2005 at the latest. If the timetable proposed by the Commission had been retained, the Prestige would have had to be decommissioned on 1 September 2002 (date of application of the final Regulation) as it was 26 years old on the date of the accident.