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The Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom MP
From the Secretary of State
Department
for Environment
Food & Rural Affairs
Esben Lunde Larsen
Minister for Environment and Food
Slotsholmsgade 12
1216 Copenhagen
Denmark
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London SW1P3JR
T 03459 335577
www.gov.uk/defra
December 2016
Dear
Thank you for your letter of 29 November 2016.
We are concerned at the reports about the beaching of the North Sea Producer in
Bangladesh.
The competent authority for England, the Environment Agency, is currently carrying out
further investigations. At the present time we believe the vessel left the UK as a working
vessel, but we want to reassure ourselves that Maersk, as the original owner of the vessel,
has acted in accordance with the Basel Convention and EU Waste Shipment Regulations.
The Environment Agency is in contact with lawyers from Maersk who are co-operating fully
with their enquiries.
I am sorry that we have no further information to share with you at this time, but the
Environment Agency need to explore all possible avenues for the UK to decide on what, if
any, further actions are required.
Best wishes,
Andrea Leadsom MP
Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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