Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-10-Speech-1-099"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Market access to port services2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030310.5.1-099"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-10-Speech-1-1002
lpv:speaker	lp:Dirk Sterckx2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; ELDR (1999-09-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Vlaamse liberalen en democraten (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Thank you, Mr President. Commissioner, access to port services must be as open as possible, and a port must be able to operate as well as possible. This directive is one contribution, but we also need guidelines for government aid and a directive on transparent financial relationships between the port sector and the government. We are also rightly making rules that create a framework for the free circulation of services and we are rightly including specific aspects of ports. The trade unions are also right to point out to us the risks of ports of convenience, ports where all the social rules go overboard, just as there are flags of convenience, cheap flags, for ships. That is why we must impose requirements – social requirements too – on anyone wanting to offer services in a port. That is also why we propose introducing compulsory licensing for the provision of services in ports. That will enable aspects such as safety and the environment to be taken into account, as well as social rules and employment. The accident, an accident that once more focused our attention on the training and quality of ships’ crews, which we are also talking about here, had fortunately not yet happened at the time of the first reading. Since then we have also had a proposal from the International Maritime Organisation about safety on ships and in ports – in fact you are currently working on legislation on that. We must therefore know who is working in our ports and under what conditions. With a good licensing policy the competent authorities should be able to ensure that a port is not a place where you take risks with safety or with the environment, that a port is certainly not a place where you allow social dumping, but that a port is in fact a vital link in an efficient and sustainable European transport policy. That is something we urgently need."@en1
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