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Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Blokland for his good work on this piece of legislation, but my Group is disappointed with the compromise package and we have therefore submitted a number of amendments. For example, waste should only be shipped where truly necessary and unfortunately the proposed regulation is not as strong as it should be on this.
A particularly important case here is that of persistent organic pollutants. The regulation implementing the Stockholm Convention does not deal with a shipment of POPs as or contained in waste, so the waste shipment regulation urgently needs to do so. This would help to avoid shipments of POPs in waste from countries that could and should deal with the waste themselves. If this provision had been in place two years ago, the export of the so-called ‘ghost fleet’ – dilapidated US navy ships full of PCBs sailing from the US to the UK – could have been stopped on legal grounds. Regrettably, the compromise does not cover this issue. Neither does it properly address dismantling of ships. Large numbers of EU ships will soon need to be scrapped following the recent and welcome decision to accelerate the phase-out of single-hull tankers, but there is a very real danger that they will be dumped on Asian beaches to be dealt with under very poor conditions.
For these reasons my Group will be abstaining and not voting in favour of this package."@en1
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