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"Mr President, Commissioner, today being the anniversary of the sinking of the
on 12 December 1999, my group and I are pleased to see that conciliation on three sets of proposals has been successful. Concerning the Watts report, we are particularly pleased that the European Parliament’s delegation succeeded in making black boxes compulsory, which was not the easiest thing to do. This means that, from now on, a ship will be detained if it is not fitted with a functioning VDR system. With regard to Mr Ortuondo Larrea’s report, the question of the conflict of interests has been resolved in such a way that classification societies can no longer have any links with shipbuilders, shipowners, operators or charterers. Likewise, there is the question of the limits of the financial liability of these companies with regard to the financial balance of recognised organisations. There is also the problem that Mr Souchet mentioned of providing compensation payments from the IOPC Fund or from a European fund in a more efficient manner.
It is also a matter of urgency, as Mr Hatzidakis said, to settle, at third reading, the problem of single hull ships, mainly in view of the 2015 deadline, as maritime safety issues cannot wait any longer – it is already two years to the day since the sinking of the
. Intermittent spills and substandard ‘dustbin ships’, such as the one that recently sunk off the coast of Brest, are still all too topical and it is a test of the EU’s credibility to resolve this situation once and for all."@en1
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