Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-03-Speech-3-095"
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"Mr President, I want to raise one matter relating to the enforcement of seafarer’s hours, of their working time onboard ships using Community ports.
I do not really see how this measure can be monitored satisfactorily because the Community ports and the countries within the European Community have no real jurisdiction over those ships that are flagged or owned in overseas countries. If we take it forward: Say, for instance, they had agreed that some monitoring was possible – surely they would not have certain working hours outside European Community waters and ports and then change once they were inside our geographical area.
I have been talking about this with American lawyers over recent weeks – personal friends, I have no interest to declare here. They just feel that it is wrong that ports should dictate to owners of ships. We want the maximum trade here in the European Union. We want to make sure that cruise ships come here, spend money here and give employment to our various countries. I do not see how it is possible to monitor a practice that would seem to be more a matter of international law. Ship owners and the nations that have these ships flagged in those countries should be monitored elsewhere rather than by European countries."@en1
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