Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002599/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Ana Miranda Paz (Verts/ALE)
In its answers to my questions (E‑000725/2019[1] and E‑002829/2019[2]), and in its answer to a question posed by my group (E‑004684/2020[3]), the Commission admitted that there is nuclear waste off the Galician coast, although it has acknowledged it was not in possession of updated studies on the impact of this, and multiple times has postponed the monitoring of marine radioactivity in Galician waters.
However, it has recently been brought to our attention that a French oceanographic expedition (the Nodssum mission) moved to the relevant area (located almost one thousand kilometres from the Galician coast) and has already located off the Galician coast over one thousand of the more than 220 000 barrels containing radioactive material that were dumped there between 1940 and 1985.
Considering the above:
- 1.Is the Commission aware of these interventions?
- 2.Bearing in mind that the European Union did not do its work after the Commission included the monitoring of marine radioactivity on the Galician coast in the verification mission programme for 2020, pursuant to Article 35, what steps does the Commission plan to take in this regard? Will the Commission conduct its own study on the state of the nuclear waste deposited off the Galician coast?
Submitted: 26.6.2025