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"Mr President, I would firstly like to thank my colleague Mr Dirk Sterckx for his efforts and also to congratulate him on the result he has achieved. Initially, we already had good cooperation in the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, and it now looks as if we can find social support for this. The preparations proceeded practically and effectively: people went to Galicia and also to other places to gather information. Information from the people on the ground. Information from people who have been thinking about these issues for longer than we have here in Parliament. I sincerely hope that the support we have received in our committee will be reinforced tomorrow.
The next step is naturally for the European Commission to build on this and for the Council of Transport Ministers to provide the necessary support. There is still one point which I am worried about and which I have set out in Amendment No 10 together with the rapporteur. It concerns the problem ships that have been banned and phased out in Europe. We want these single-hulled oil tankers out of service sooner than the IMO currently considers necessary. We should not allow these ships to automatically end up on the shores of poor countries and people without facilities to dismantle these ships, with all the associated risks. It would be inexcusable if the higher European standards were to result in potential environmental damage because we do not want to face the problem. The oil tankers we do not want here any more must not end up on the beaches of the Far East in large numbers. The pollution this will cause will be anything up to several times greater than the pollution caused on our own coastline by the
. It is my conviction that Europe should introduce a maximum life span for ships. This would require European shipowners and European flag states to dismantle their ships properly. In my amendment I ask the European Commission to examine whether this is feasible in the short-term on the basis of a cost-benefit analysis. I would therefore like to ask the Commissioner whether she will express her support for this. I even have concrete indications that environmental protection and economic considerations are running in parallel in this matter. The business sector is already formulating initiatives to give concrete content to the chapter on ‘corporate citizenship’.
It is extremely important that we do not stop after today but that we keep going so as to prevent disasters from occurring more frequently both inside and outside the European Union."@en1
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