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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should at any rate like to thank everyone, including the team behind the Commissioner, for example, for the quality and volume of work they have all done.
However, I regularly suffer nightmares. When I wake up, I just hope and pray that another oil tanker has not run aground. I hope that will not be the case in the next three years either, for – everyone has already said it – it has been long enough, it is actually taking too long before we can lay down legislation, and we are only halfway. Speeding up processes of this kind can do no harm at all.
A disaster such as the one involving the
is simply a real disaster, not only environmentally, but also economically and socially, and it can be entirely traced back to 80 000 ships, some ten percent of which, 8 000 ships, are absolutely sub-standard. This is to a certain extent where the problem lies, or in large part at any rate. Despite the fact that classification bureaux were involved and despite what has happened with, and is suggested about, double hulls, I should briefly like to focus on the port state control, for in the final analysis, what matters is that inspections should become effective. Mr Piecyk, but also others, have already drawn attention to this. Actually, we want 25% of inspections by way of a yardstick. But what mainly matters is that these inspections are carried out by well-trained people, and that they are carried out in the first place. We should, for example, call the French Transport Minister to account for the fact that his country scores exceptionally low in the percentage of inspections that are carried out. Although we now have a perfect and itemised list, enforcement still appears to be a problem. This is often the case when we draft legislation, but particularly so now. I therefore intend to monitor annual surveys of the Paris memorandum of understanding and other matters in the next few months with the help of others, and check whether inspection of this kind is, in fact, on the increase. I would also ask the Commissioner to ensure that we receive an annual overview, so that we can be active and pro-active to ensure that what we want to achieve actually happens.
Secondly, I would mainly call for a prompt completion of the
and for accelerating the process in the light of the tiresome pace on the part of industry with regard to separate funding and such like.
I would like to finish off with one point. Malta and Cyprus have been mentioned in connection with enlargement. There are still two that, let us say, are on the waiting list, including Romania. Romania is another country with an exceptionally bad track record on this black list, and I would call for extra attention to be paid to it."@en1
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