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I am fully supportive of the ideas in the Commission communication. I believe that the Community must be at the forefront in international efforts to reduce atmospheric emissions from marine vessels.
This strategy contributes to the 'Clean air for Europe' programme, for which I was Parliament’s rapporteur. These are aims and values which we all share, a fact borne out by the unanimous adoption of Ms Lucas’ report.
This subject is, of course, closely linked with maintaining the strictest controls to ensure protection of our seas from environmental damage by shipping. The proposed directive on improving the quality of shipping fuels is important as it will bring the quality of shipping fuels into line with on-land motor fuels. Currently there is far too much air pollution, particularly in and around ports.
I am confident that progress will be made in these areas in the forthcoming Irish presidency.
Finally, I want to put on the record that I object in the strongest terms to threats to the marine environment around the Irish and other north-west European coastlines posed by the so-called 'Ghost Fleet' of clapped-out American ships being sent to British scrapyards."@en1
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