Spain's Supreme Court has handed down its final ruling on the huge amount of compensation owed to the state and others for the Prestige tanker disaster in 2002.
It ordered on Thursday that Spain be paid EUR 1.5bn ($1.7bn) in damages, AFP reported.
The 1976-built tanker broke in two and sank off Galicia while it was being towed away from the coast, spilling more than 50,000 tonnes of crude that reached beaches - the Iberian peninsula's worst environmental disaster.
