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Eighteen months after the shipwreck of the
need we remind anyone of the distress, the suffering, the anger of the people living along our Atlantic Coast, whose maritime and tourist activities have been so hard hit? Need we remind anyone how long it took to pay out compensation, which in many cases has still not been received, and how inadequate that compensation was?
The Watts report is concerned with strengthening port state control and with rigorous inspections and procedures. We support the rapporteur's calls for the use of voyage data recorders.
In the Ortuondo report, we welcome the more stringent legislation on ship-classification societies.
We also note with interest the progress of the ‘
package’, which we await impatiently.
Yet we are still far from taking the necessary measures in regard to compensating the victims, applying the principle of the ‘polluter cleans up’, restoring the balance of sea transport between the various Community ports and encouraging the maintenance and development of our merchant fleets.
The overcrowding of European ports, especially in the Channel and the North Sea, makes these measures all the more urgent.
The day after this tragic accident, speaking in this Chamber, I proposed adopting the following broad policy guidelines:
The ‘polluter cleans up’ principle: will we leave it to the communities, to the citizens who are the victims, to clean up our coast?
The ‘polluter pays’ principle: we must underline the liability of the ship-owners and operators in this type of disaster.
Rapid and complete compensation of the victims.
Maintenance of the Community fleet and shipyards at an acceptable level, rather than allowing fleets to develop in our seas and our ports over which we have no control, which fly flags of convenience that are quite untraceable.
Strengthening the Community legislation providing for the inspection and classification of ships operating in Community waters and a ban on dangerous ships.
Eighteen months later, what has become of the measures we called for?
We welcome the proposals on which Parliament voted today and which go in the right direction."@en1
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