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"en.20000313.5.1-094"2
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"Mr President, it is not so long ago that many held the view that waste would disappear if you dumped it in the sea or shot it into space. These days, we know that waste has a habit of reappearing, often in a more harmful form. Large-scale pollution of the sea and the destruction of the animal life caused by shipwrecked tankers always attracts a great deal of attention.
Far less attention is given to the fact that seas are polluted on a daily basis by regular merchant navy ships and recreational yachts. It is high time that we laid down a comprehensive regulation which is easy to monitor and which ensures that shipping waste is collected and processed at ports in an environmentally-friendly manner. We can benefit from practical experience gained in ports such as my home town, Rotterdam.
The question is, of course, raised as to whether rules can have an adverse effect on smaller vessels. Historic museum ships and ships which, proportionately, call at many ports over a short distance have to pay more often as a result. I am under the impression that the rapporteur has sought the best possible solution and has listened carefully to the comments. Other solutions would probably have a less favourable effect on environmental protection, and my group can assent to this report on that basis."@en1
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