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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this issue is, as you know, of immense concern not only to our group but also to me personally, as a Portuguese Member of this House. Portugal is one of the countries most vulnerable to this type of incident. The
spill almost reached our shores and, a few years ago, an incident with immense repercussions struck Porto Santo. Portuguese waters (by which I mean both the waters off the mainland and those around Madeira and the Azores) are subject to intense maritime traffic. That is why we always participate in these debates.
I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on his work, just as I previously congratulated the Commissioner on her response to this incident and on the determination with which she produced the Erika I and Erika
II packages. I would say that if the Erika
I and Erika
II packages were fully implemented and all the measures this report proposes for the future applied over the next two years, we could rest secure in the knowledge that things had finally taken a turn for the better. We need to devote our political energies to this, however, because these words cannot sink beneath the waves as the
did. They must remain on the political decision-making table.
This report contains measures still aimed at dealing with the consequences of the
disaster. These measures must not be forgotten. I am referring to the explanation for the disaster, the social and economic consequences, and the ongoing environmental consequences, which must be avoided in future. The report also contains more general measures on which, of course, I would like to focus: specific shipping lanes, the question of safe havens, the question of adequate resources for providing assistance in this type of emergency and, above all, a more determined stance on the part of the European Union and all the Member States within the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). It is time that all of us went to the IMO together and called for an end to this game of cat and mouse which international shipping seems to have become. Only if the Member States adopt a very determined political stance will we be able to make the seas around our countries – around the Community – safe from incidents of this kind, once and for all."@en1
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