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"Mr President, we are taking action as a Parliament, as a European Union, to make our seas safer because of tragic events like the loss of the
the
and, most recently
. We are putting in place a series of measures to ensure events like that can never happen again. We save lives and we protect the marine environment. I therefore applaud the Commission and the Commissioner for her commitment to improving the safety of our seas and the Council for its willingness to codecide with Parliament. In particular I pay tribute to the rapporteur for his determination both to strengthen and clarify an already good proposal.
The three key elements are monitoring and information, transponders on every ship and monitoring by every maritime authority, an essential component of our package of measures – the Erika package. This will ensure that there is no hiding place for substandard ships, that all ships will be watched and monitored and that they will not escape compliance with their international obligations. That is our message to substandard ships and the flags of convenience.
Secondly, the proposal dovetails with my own report on port State control. In particular the black box voyage-data recorder. As the rapporteur has said, this will enable us not just to learn from lessons but prevent problems occurring in the first place.
We are giving real help to ships in distress to ensure that they are properly handled in emergency situations, closing a loophole in the safety chain.
I, like the rapporteur, want to ensure that this and other Erika measures are complied with. This perhaps is the greatest challenge we face as a Community. We want to ensure all this new legislation, worthy though it is, is complied with not just by the ship operators but also by the Member States themselves who, sadly, over the years, have shown a reluctance to adhere to Community law. I hope that the Erika rapporteurs together can meet the Commissioner soon to help bring forward proposals as to how best Parliament can ensure that Member States comply with their toughened obligations.
Finally, I hope our amendments can be accepted in full in order to avoid codecision and to ensure this legislation, which will do so much to make our seas safer, comes on to the statute book at the earliest possible opportunity."@en1
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