2005

With few pollution incidents and no major spills, and with national Ritmer post-Erika contracts in full swing and European post-Prestige contracts beginning, the year reached a new record-breaking budget (5.27 million Euros, including contributions in kind). This included 783,000 Euros of exceptional investments of the association's own funds, in new facilities which the response to the Prestige spill had proved necessary: a new response centre, offices for the Contingency Planning Department and alteration of the experimentation hall.