Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-16-Speech-4-087"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Votes (continued)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990916.6.4-087"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-16-Speech-4-0882
lpv:speaker	lp:Dominique F.C. Souchet2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2000-11-22)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; UEN (1999-07-20--2001-01-30)3 substitute; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Marine pollution, whether accidental or deliberate, is a particularly serious threat to the maritime and coastal zones of the European Union’s Member States. We have had in the recent past, several tragic examples of accidental pollution in the form of spillages of hydrocarbons and other dangerous substances, particularly chemical ones. The members of the Union for a Europe of Nations Group think that in this area of accidental marine pollution, the implementation of a community framework for co-operation is justified on the grounds of genuine common interest. The proposal that the Commission has presented to us aims to gather together, within a single legal framework, the various actions carried out to date in this area. Regarding the amendments adopted by the Committee on the Environment, we have voted against all of those which invite the European Union’s neighbouring countries to make use of the PHARE, TACIS and MEDA programmes in order to make them contribute financially to the implementation of this Community framework for co-operation. Indeed, these three programmes make no provision at the moment for any action in this sector, and it does not seem desirable to be encouraging the dispersion of available means at the expense of priority programmes for the economic development of the European Union’s neighbouring countries which are candidates for accession. On the other hand, the members of the Union for a Europe of Nations Group have voted in favour of all the other amendments, including amendment 22, which limits the Commission’s right of initiative and which allows the ad hoc committee to have control over its agenda, to produce its own minutes, as well as the declarations of interest of its own members. It is essential that we curb the tendency which we have seen in other areas: The Commission does in fact tend to set committees up and then try systematically to take complete control of them, in order to make them totally dependent on their views. Any committee set up by the Commission must remain autonomous and independent if it is to play its full role, which is that of providing expert advice."@en1

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