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dcterms:Date	"2004-02-12"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20040212.3.4-064"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-12-Speech-4-0652
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilda Figueiredo2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2002-03-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-20--2004-04-21)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". We voted in favour of this report, as we feel that the new supplementary fund will greatly help to ensure that victims of future oil spills will be paid in full and more swiftly. This proposal arose following the Council’s decision authorising Member States to sign or ratify, in the interest of the European Community, the Protocol of 2003 to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation of Oil Pollution Damage, 1992. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) protocol increases the funding available to compensate the victims of oil spills. The Member States have been called on to sign this protocol as soon as possible and, if possible, by 30 June 2004. This decision follows the accident involving the in November 2002, when the Council adopted a firmer position on the need for additional compensation. More recently, the European Council of 21 March 2003 confirmed the point of view expressed at various Council meetings, calling on Member States, ‘in terms of compensation for the victims of pollution, including environmental damage (...) to pursue within the forthcoming diplomatic conference at the IMO in May an increase in the current ceiling on compensation to EUR one billion’. On 16 May 2003, the IMO adopted a new protocol to the existing oil pollution liability and compensation conventions. This protocol establishes a supplementary fund, which multiplies the ceiling by five ... ( )"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Explanation of vote abbreviated in accordance with Rule 137(1) of the Rules of Procedure"1 "Prestige"1

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