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Madam President, the overall compromise package now being proposed includes particularly important points. To be specific, it contains more strongly-worded prospects for further reductions in the future, clarification as to the date of application to the North Sea, preconditions for the supply and distribution of fuels, so that ship operators know their obligations, an exemption from the application of berthing distance limits for vessels which use clean shoreside energy and an obligation for ships which use emission abatement technology to have continuous emission monitoring equipment.
Even more important is the compromise package containing the much more strongly worded possibility for lowering limits still further, as far as 0.5% during the Commission review in 2008.
Under the amended review clause, the Commission must investigate the economic efficacy of any further measures, take account of the development of emission abatement technologies and study the possibility of submitting proposals on the introduction of financial measures to give industry the incentive to develop new environmental technologies.
I know that all these elements were very important to Parliament at first reading and to the competent committee. Although we were not in a position to include the 0.5% limit on sulphur now, as the second stage of the directive, I can assure you that we have undertaken to examine the possibility of setting a limit of 0.5% in the near future.
While acknowledging that the new limit of 1.5% for sulphur in marine fuels will remain 1 500 times higher than the sulphur content in fuels for road transport, the Commission firmly believes that shipping can and must reduce this limit, in order to retain its environmental credibility. That is the reason why the Commission has prepared a statement in which it clearly formulates its commitment to conducting a lengthy review of the directive in 2008.
To use the specific term in English, which the rapporteur has borrowed from shipping terminology, I wish to emphasise that the Commission will do what it can to anchor environmental improvements to shipping in the International Maritime Organisation.
To close, the Commission is most satisfied with the outcome of the negotiations and wants to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Hassi, once again for her efforts to broker an agreement at second reading. The Commission can accept all the proposed compromise amendments."@en1
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