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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the increased incidence of disasters at sea is not the work of pure chance. Our political duty requires us to adopt urgent measures but we must also enforce existing legislation.
We can no longer confine ourselves to telling the people hit by these ecological and economic disasters that we have discussed these problems, that we are giving them some thought, and that we will avoid them in future. If we want to be credible, we must act quickly and put an end to sterile political diatribes. The time has long gone for simple compromises, which some, moreover, are saying will be difficult to achieve. We must adopt draconian measures and enforce them at an international level by reforming the erstwhile International Maritime Code.
Is it necessary to recall that maritime safety is the preserve of international law, especially since pollution never stops at the limits of national territorial waters and that it starts for the most part in international waters? Given that, it is no longer a question of making the players involved aware of their responsibilities – as that is not effective – but of striking with real binding force where the impact will be felt the most, that is at financial interests.
Our political action must be powerful and commensurate with ecological urgency.
We must do away with hypocrisy. The way to achieve this necessarily lies in deploring the financial links that exist in some cases between shipowners and classification societies and in involving the parties concerned – shipowners, shippers, insurers and maritime administrations – in order to find a comprehensive solution. The reports currently under debate must be the draft for a genuine maritime safety policy, but they must in no way be limited to the Community context. We have the political and economic resources to impose our choices and to ensure that they are respected.
To conclude, I will recall that the Americans did not wait for us to promulgate the Oil Pollution Act in 1990 in response to the loss of the Exxon
in 1989, whilst the loss of the Amoco
in France dates back to 1978. Let us have the political courage of our ecological ambitions."@en1
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