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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think the rapporteur, Mrs Meissner, must be congratulated. We have had dissimilar, even conflictive positions, but she has found compromise solutions that allow us to stand together today on this important issue. Ladies and gentlemen, the Committee on Transport and Tourism has decided that all the seas should be protected in a similar way, arguing that any other solution would bring about a situation of unfair competition. We accept the position of the majority in favour of a legal situation with uniform rules for the entire Union, although I will not spare Members the fact that such a solution also clearly implies a certain degree of unfairness. It is obvious that the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the English Channel are more polluted and, in my view, sulphur monitoring will have to be stricter. The measures to reduce transport time and handling costs in ports are certainly positive initiatives. Nonetheless, I will repeat this again and again: we still have work to do on this matter. Unless we liberalise our ports resolutely, they will not be able to expand the key role they will be required to play in the context of co-modality. The promotion of a CO reduction strategy aimed at altering the specific consequences of climate change is also to be welcomed. I think this is a good report that must be adopted. But we must not forget that this report is in the context of a serious disaster, namely that affecting the Gulf of Mexico. In this respect, the Commission is urged to judge whether it is necessary, within the framework of revision of the Regulation of the European Maritime Safety Agency, to strengthen the role of the Agency in carrying out preventive inspections and post-hydrocarbon-spill clean-up tasks. Commissioner, this, I believe, is a necessary reform and the necessary mandate must be used to support these tasks."@en1
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