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We can only take pleasure in the new protocol raising the capacity of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPCF) to EUR 930 million. I have therefore voted in favour of the Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado report.
However, we cannot ignore the fact that the damage caused by the sinking of the
is estimated at a minimum of EUR 5 billion. In view of the size of oil tankers, and therefore the scale of the disasters they may cause, we are far from our target.
This is why it seems to me necessary to progressively raise the ceiling for IOPCF compensation, and that we need an additional fund amongst the European States, provided that it is not used as a pretext to postpone the necessary adaptation of the IOPCF.
We must also adopt international agreements which are not limited to establishing the responsibility of the owner of the vessel, as is the case today, but also extend responsibilities to all the actors in the transport chain, ship operators, charterers, and also owners of the cargo transported, thereby encouraging the latter to take care to choose safe ships."@en1
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