S.L. 549.97 Art. 14Co-operation between Member States.

(1) Where environmental damage affects or is likely to affect several Member States, those Member States shall cooperate, also through the appropriate exchange of information, with a view to ensuring that preventive action and, where necessary, remedial action is taken in respect of any such environmental damage.

(2) Where environmental damage has occurred or originated in Maltese territory, Malta shall provide sufficient information to the potentially affected Member States.

(3) Where Malta identifies damage within its borders which has not been caused within them, it may report the issue to the Commission and any other Member State concerned; in such a case Malta may make recommendations for the adoption of preventive or remedial measures and it may seek, in accordance with these regulations, to recover the costs it has incurred in relation to the adoption of preventive or remedial measures.