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"Mr President, I am speaking on behalf of the Socialist Group and also as the Socialist coordinator of the Committee on Fisheries to draw the attention of the House to the oil spill from the
to which previous speakers have also referred, which took place last week near the coast of my region, Galicia.
On Thursday – the accident happened on Wednesday – I tabled a motion for a resolution before this House and also tabled two motions for resolutions, because I understand there are common interests here: environmental interests, fisheries interests – which the Committee on Fisheries will have to pursue – and interests relating to the maritime transport of dangerous goods, which the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism will have to pursue.
The tanker has already left an oil slick 37 km long which is spreading towards the coast, paradoxically, despite being named
and you can see that this will indeed be a European problem – it is Bahamas-flagged, with a Philippine-Romanian crew, it was travelling from Lithuania – a candidate country – to Gibraltar, which involves a European Union country, a Member State, in this case the United Kingdom, and was under the command of a Greek captain.
I would call on the Community institutions to strengthen legislation in this field, comply with existing legislation and devote their attention to this kind of disaster by means of European solidarity, such as that provided, for example, in the cases of the natural disasters that have taken place in four Member States over the summer."@en1
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