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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030922.5.1-062"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Astrid Thors2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Svenska folkpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PETI (2002-01-23--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I wish to begin by thanking my dear friend and colleague, Mr Sterckx, for his excellent work. As a Scandinavian, I usually only say thank you when there really is cause for doing so. As Dirk and the rest of you know, most of the cargo on the came from Saint Petersburg through the Gulf of Finland, one of the seas that is extremely close to me and that is now already very polluted and vulnerable. What happened in Galicia could have happened in the Gulf of Finland. That is something we have said on numerous occasions. That is why we feel such solidarity with our friends in Galicia. We know that Russia’s oil exports, specifically through the Gulf of Finland, will be multiplied perhaps five- or six-fold in the course of the next few years. The same applies to the cargoes transported from Murmansk. It is not only the North Sea and the other areas mentioned that will be affected. Ladies and gentlemen, I would ask the Commission to devote special attention to Port State Control in the forthcoming progress report on the candidate countries. Obviously, there is still a great deal to be done in this area in order to ensure that the control is economically and legally independent. Unfortunately, we have heard of examples showing that this is not the case. Port State Control cannot operate unless it is independent and impartial. I therefore hope that the forthcoming progress report will support this. Furthermore, I want to inform you all, together with the Commissioners, that the parliamentary assembly for the Baltic states, which met at the beginning of September in Uleåborg in Finland, was in favour of rapidly phasing out single-hull tankers and declaring the Baltic, or parts of it, to be a particularly sensitive sea area, or PSSA, a matter also addressed in paragraph 25 of the report. The important thing about this meeting was that members of the Russian state parliament and of Russian regional parliaments also supported this. In the continued debate, it is important for us to recognise that we shall get nowhere concerning many sea areas in Europe if the negotiations with third countries and with Russia do not produce results. The EU cannot attend to this alone. Instead, we need such support as we can get. That is why it is important that, in particular, the work concerning the Baltic take place in cooperation with colleagues. That is a road on which we can make further progress."@en1

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