European Commission declines comment on tanker seized in Gibraltar

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive declined on Thursday to comment on the tanker detained in Gibraltar, saying that it had no information on the case and that implementing the bloc's sanctions was a matter for the member states.

Gibraltar said on Thursday it had detained the supertanker Grace 1 on suspicion of carrying crude oil to Syria in what a legal source said may be the first such interception under EU sanctions.

(Reporting by Alissa de Carbonnel and Robin Emmott, Writing by Gabriela Baczynska)

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