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I agree with the speaker. As I said earlier, we need to evaluate any important ideas, innovations or legislation in other countries in the light of our own experience. I should also like to say that the summit Council took a very important decision in Copenhagen, the Council of transport ministers took a decision dealing with these aspects and I am sure that no Member State has any desire to block measures which will help to protect the environment. The Member States which you mentioned have every reason to want to protect their coastline. The United Kingdom has an extensive coastline. Greece has an extensive coastline. It would be incongruous if a country such as the United Kingdom did not want to protect its coastline. I think that the European Union, and the Council in particular, has every intention of passing the necessary legislation, as does the Commission, which has the initiative for any new regulations. So we are waiting for initiatives from the Commission and we are prepared to shoulder our responsibility in the Council.
However, I must reiterate that we cannot assume that our legislation alone is protection enough. It would be an easy way out and we would adopt it immediately if that was the only way of ensuring our countries and coastlines were protected; but neighbouring countries need to do likewise. We have mentioned the new members, we have mentioned Russia and the Mediterranean countries, but what I would say is that at an international level – and we mentioned this aspect also – these requirements, these standards which help to protect not just European countries and coastlines but, as one Member said, the other countries and the other coastlines on the planet, also need to be adopted."@en1
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