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"This regulation will enable us to establish a fund for the compensation of oil pollution damage in European waters.
The oil slick of December 1999 demonstrated once again the inadequacy of compensation on offer. Most of the victims have still not been compensated. The proposal is a definite improvement but it is inadequate, because it does not take the idea of making both the shipowner and the charterer responsible to its conclusion. It is an improvement because the money for the fund will be guaranteed by European businesses, which will enable the compensation to be both substantial and rapid. The proposal contains major shortcomings, because this regulation does not establish the unlimited responsibility of polluters and does not deduct the payment from the total damages caused.
This is why we are tabling amendments. Some of them are designed to establish unlimited responsibility: by clearly establishing the link between shipowner and flag State, and by placing the obligation on owners and charterers to underwrite unlimited insurance. Other amendments seek to make the management of the COPE funds more transparent by means of the composition of its committee. We shall be voting in favour of this text, but we shall continue to try to ensure that all damages are paid for out of the immense profits made by the polluters."@en1
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