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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to start by thanking Mr de Grandes Pascual and your Committee on Transport and Tourism once again for their excellent work, which should allow us to adopt the text at first reading. I am delighted at this because – as several of you have said – we must never forget the disasters of the sinking of the
and the
. That is why it is absolutely vital to use all means necessary, and now that Parliament and the Council have brought their texts into line with one another, we will be able to reach agreement at first reading.
Of course, the Commission supports the compromise reached during the informal trialogue with the Council. In this spirit, it accepts the compromise amendments you have proposed, Mr de Grandes Pascual, which are supported by the various political groups and which reflect the compromise from the informal trialogue with the Council. I am quite sure that, tomorrow, the Members of the European Parliament will support this approach, even if the financial package of EUR 154 million must be regarded as a minimum, as stated in one of the recitals to the regulation.
I should like to take this opportunity to respond to some of the comments that have been made regarding the Agency’s missions. We can look at this extension as part of the revision of the regulation planned for 2007. I am thinking in particular, Mr President, of the current situation on the coast of Lebanon, where we should like to be able to respond more easily to the needs of our Lebanese friends. That said, I have also noted your desire to ensure that the efforts undertaken by the Agency in terms of combating pollution do not result in a disengagement from the Member States. We must be quite clear on that point.
I should like to thank you, Mr President: the quality of this debate, and your various suggestions and proposals, show that Parliament really feels involved in these efforts to combat marine pollution and to protect the European marine environment, which is one of our great assets. I should therefore like to thank Parliament, and I hope that we will now be able to adopt this excellent text without delay."@en1
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