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Mr President, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Hughes, on the report on the organisation of seafarer’s working time and for his proposal to Parliament to approve, without amendments, the Council’s common position on the enforcement of seafarers’ hours of work on board ships using Community ports. The approval of the proposal without amendments will allow the procedure to be closed once and for all and therefore complete our work in the field of working hours in this maritime sector.
I would like to remind Parliament that last June the Council adopted Directive 99/63, which incorporates into Community law the agreement on the organisation of seafarers’ working time, signed by the social partners in the maritime transport sector. And I believe that one of the great successes of this measure is the fact that we are following up an agreement between the social partners themselves, which guarantees – I believe – the effectiveness of this agreement.
Therefore, Mr President, both the directive on the agreement and the current draft directive will enter into force on 30 June 2002. This time period is considered necessary so that the Member States may ratify the relevant agreements of the ILO on the hours of work in maritime transport. The ratification of the instruments of the ILO is in fact a necessary condition so that foreign ships which call at EU ports may be boarded for inspection, which will allow us, amongst other things, to prevent unfair competition within our own ports.
Mr President, lastly, I would to expressly thank the European Parliament once again, and especially Mr Hughes, for the work carried out and for your support for the proposal."@en1
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