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".
Mr President, Commissioner, it is eight months since the shipwreck of the
and there is still a risk of further oil spills, especially oil emanating from the cargo contained in the wreck.
This situation has arisen due to factors which are daily occurrences in that area, failure to manage high-density traffic and massive oil transfer operations between vessels at sea. However, in this particular case, there has also been a chain of errors and abandonment of responsibility, in terms of monitoring of the vessel as well as after the collision.
Therefore, Commissioner, this Parliament would be glad if you could answer the following four questions:
One, do you have any information on the origin and degree of toxicity of the 42 500 tonnes of scrap metal not recovered?
Two, can you tell us whether, following the collision and over these last eight months, there has been recourse to the Community Mechanism for Civil Protection and if so how many times?
Three, do you know of any plans and time schedules to refloat the vessel − to which you referred just now − or of any plans to monitor the risk of contamination being released from its cargo?
Four, the European Commission has opened an inquiry. Is this to establish whether the competent authorities breached the Community rules in force? If so, Mr Barrot, if there has been a breach of Community law, please give this House an undertaking that you will refer those infringements to the Court of Justice of the European Communities, because when all is said and done it is always citizens and the environment who pay."@en1
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