Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-18-Speech-2-142"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Oil slick off the French coast2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000118.5.2-142"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-18-Speech-2-1432
lpv:speaker	lp:Cristina García-orcoyen Tormo2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-10-06--2000-10-04)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-11-04--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I believe that the unfortunate incident involving the should in fact, as others have said this afternoon, constitute a decisive watershed which will see the end to this type of accident in the European Union where, since 1967, there have been seventeen accidents involving large oil tankers; more than one every two years. The economic and social damage, which we have spoken about today, in terms of the loss of jobs and fishing and tourist resources, is so great that they fully justify decisive and thorough action on the part of the Community institutions. Commissioner, I would also like to thank you for the speedy response of your department to this event and the measures which are being adopted and implemented. I trust that these measures will, in a few months, give rise to a clear and convincing legal instrument – a directive, possibly – which will put an end, once and for all, to these 21st Century pirates, who deprive us all of the wealth and beauty of the sea. I would like to comment on one of the measures to be taken, which was mentioned by the Commissioner and some of my colleagues. I am referring to the double hull, which consists of two layers of steel, with containers divided into two tanks. Commissioner, there are many experts who consider that the double hull is not sufficiently safe and propose the so-called ‘ecological hull’ in which case, in the event of an accident, the seawater penetrates the containers and, as a result of pressure, the oil is transferred to other tanks. Commissioner, I believe that it is time to opt for the safest technically possible measures. It is therefore not sufficient to merely reproduce the legislation in force in other countries. I believe that we can and must improve the existing legislation in this regard. Any cost-benefit analysis which truly takes into account all the harm occasioned to persons and the environment by these accidents, is bound to support this approach."@en1

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