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"Mr President, in short, I am disappointed with the Commission’s response to our oral question.
I appreciate that a world agreement would be ideal and I appreciate that we need to involve the IMO, but the IMO has got to be one of the slowest international organisations the world has ever come across. It works at the pace of a tortoise, and we want action now.
Commissioner, if I drop 2 000 heavy metal boxes into the sea, deliberately, with a load of materials in, then I would be prosecuted. Yet we allow this to happen every year in EU waters.
I make a plea: you cannot play Pontius Pilot with this and wash your hands of the problem. It is a problem that is increasing. It is a serious problem and it is a problem that you have to address. It is not a problem you can hide behind, saying ‘well, we need to assess this’ and ‘we need to assess that’, or whatever.
You have heard what the Members have said. Please now get on with trying to sort it out."@en1
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