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The Council agrees with the honourable Member that there is a clear need for a coordinated response on the part of the ΕU to the situation which has arisen as a result of these maritime disasters and that is the position which it constantly repeats and supports. The Council recalls in particular that, on 20 December, it unanimously adopted a regulation instituting specific measures to compensate the Spanish fisheries, shellfish industry and aquaculture affected by the oil spills from the
. The Commission presented its proposal on 19 December. The European Parliament gave its opinion on the same day. The aims of the proposal are to help compensate the damages, by a contribution of the Community. Financial assistance is foreseen through the reallocation of funds including reprogramming the Spanish share (around EUR 30 million) of the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance. Part of the budgetary resources (around EUR 30 million) for the conversion of the Spanish vessels that were up to 1999 dependent on the fishing agreement with Morocco will also be used for the reparation of the damages in question.
At its meeting on 19 December 2002, the Council issued the following statement: ‘The Council, having in mind the serious accident of the oil tanker
off the north west coast of Spain, welcomes the steps taken for the purpose of the rapid adoption of the draft framework decision on the protection of the environment through criminal law.
In this context, the Council notes the conclusions of the European Council of 12 and 13 December 2002 regarding maritime safety/marine pollution that welcomes the action undertaken by the Commission to confront the consequences derived of that event and ‘its intention to examine the need for further specific measures’ and, among them, ‘questions relating to liability and the corresponding sanctions’. Therefore, in full consistency with the measures to be considered in accordance with the Community powers in the fields of protection of transport safety and protection of the environment, the Council should consider complementary measures to strengthen the protection of the environment, in particular the seas, through criminal law.’
As far as the creation of a European coastguard is concerned, it is not the Council’s place to express its views on any proposals which may have been submitted to or discussed by the European Convention."@en1
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