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"Mr President, following two fairly spectacular failed attempts at liberalising port service provisions, the Commission has greatly scaled down its ambitions on services in an attempt to finally create a sector-specific legislation in this area. However, yet again, the port services regulation has failed to tackle the real issues in Europe’s ports.
It is clear that maritime transport, to which ports are vital, plays a crucial role in achieving greater sustainability in the transport sector. The Greens’ political objective is to embed seaports into the wider framework of a sustainable transport policy that addresses safety, social and environmental standards, incorporates cross-border cooperation and coordination between seaports and aims to account for external costs.
There is also no doubt that public finance needs transparency. We cannot talk about port services without looking at the public money flowing into the ports for their infrastructure and operations. The port services regulation could have facilitated some of those aims. Unfortunately it seems clearly to fail to meet its own objectives of ensuring a more sustainable and interconnected transport network.
On financial transparency, the one valid point it does contain, it still does not do enough to ensure much needed legal certainty for the sector due to the strong link between financial transparency and the Commission’s envisaged state-aid guidelines and/or block exemptions for the ports. Both proposals should have been developed in parallel. Having first announced this initiative some 11 years ago, the Commission’s news that it will not now adopt state-aid guidelines before 2017 is frustrating but somehow unsurprising.
If Parliament accepts this report it needs to be prepared for some serious criticism, having backed a piece of binding legislation that does very little to tackle anything at all. This legislation is undeveloped and ineffective, and I therefore call upon Members to reject this report when they have the opportunity to vote tomorrow."@en1
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