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Following a spate of serious accidents over recent years off various coasts of Europe involving vessels carrying dangerous substances, the Council and the European Parliament took joint measures to wipe out the risk of this sort of disaster happening again, the aim being – as I stressed in my previous reply – to achieve high standards of environmental protection, especially of natural habitats and biodiversity.
As I have already pointed out, the Council acknowledged in December 2002 that the transportation of certain substances by sea continued to pose a serious threat both to the maritime and coastal environment and to the people dependent on them. Additional measures therefore need to be adopted.
In reply to the question, which refers to the approach taken under American legislation, the Council would remind the honourable Member of the proposal submitted last December on the possibility of setting up a joint mechanism for oil companies and the shipping companies used by them – shipowners, charterers and insurance companies – to provide the means both for preventing and for dealing efficiently with any ecological disaster or accident.
The Council also stressed that the principle of prevention, the principle of compensating for environmental disasters at source and the polluter pays principle need to be applied in an appropriate manner to maritime transport."@en1
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