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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we all know the serious repercussions this issue had recently. However, I shall endeavour to keep to the questions asked.
The Council had the opportunity – last December – to examine with the European Parliament the problems caused by repeated accidents of this sort during a general debate on the
disaster.
Having expressed then its regret with regard to the disaster caused by the shipwreck of the
tanker off the coast of Galicia last November, it can now affirm that all the Member States and the Commission have decided to improve their cooperation, in a general bid to make ships safe and prevent pollution at sea. The new European Maritime Safety Agency is proof positive of this determination.
On 6 and 9 December, the Council took measures, in the form of Council conclusions, on certain aspects of maritime transport and environmental protection.
Parliament and the Council approved five of the six acts proposed by the Commission in the Erika I and Erika II packages of legislative measures under the codecision procedure. The dates for the entry into force of these legislative acts have been selected for two reasons: to ensure they are applied as quickly as possible and to allow the port authorities to set up control capabilities where the port state is responsible for controls. As far as the phasing out of single hull tankers is concerned, the timetable laid down at international level by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is being followed, reinforced by the Member States’ commitment not to make use of the derogation allowed by the IMO. The Nice European Council, in a bid to strengthen the Union’s strategy on safety at sea, invited the Member States ‘to implement in advance the measures approved by the fifteen Member States where they do not require an international framework’.
In its conclusions approved on 6 December 2002, and in points 1, 5 and 8 in particular, the Council invited the Commission ‘as a matter of urgency, to present a proposal concerning an accelerated phasing out of single hull tankers’, called upon Member States ‘to accelerate the transposition of the amended directive with a view to applying the enhanced control measures as soon as possible, and preferably before 1 January 2003’ and urged the Member States ‘to establish as early as possible and no later than by 1July 2003 plans for the identification of places of refuge for ships in distress’.
The Council would emphasise that the measures taken by the Council and Parliament apply to all ports in the Member States of the Community and to their territorial waters and therefore cover the Azores, the Canaries and Madeira."@en1
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