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"Mr President, Commissioner, my mother tongue is very rich in popular proverbs and sayings. One of those sayings, which my mother and my grandmothers would use when some irreversible domestic accident happened, was 'why cry over spilt milk?'.
This saying is relevant here because we are once again having to express our regret at something we should have prevented through stricter control measures and by bringing forward the date for the disappearance of single-hull ships – and please note, Commissioner, that I wrote this before hearing you speak and I am therefore in agreement with what you said at the beginning. We must demand compliance with the laws we adopt, but also revise those which are not sufficiently rigorous.
The wrecking of the
once again damages an area which has suffered three serious accidents of this type over recent years: in 1976, the
the
in 1992 and the
this year. I have not yet been to Galicia – I am going tomorrow – but I am sure that one really needs to talk to the fishermen and shellfishermen in order to understand exactly the extent of the tragedy they are facing and their need for help, help which our Group is fully in favour of providing. But we must prevent anything like this from happening again, because, as well as the social and economic disaster it represents, it is an ecological disaster which affects areas belonging to the Natura 2000 network, biodiversity and the wealth of a region such as Galicia.
Commissioner, when it comes to voting in this Parliament, we must remember this catastrophe, because in the coming months we are going to discuss a very important directive, which relates to responsibility for environmental damage, and all of us here will remember what it is we are voting for. Because there are times when stricter measures are required and there is much resistance – on the part of the lobbies present in this very House – to voting for these stricter, more serious and more rigorous measures.
In the last few seconds remaining to me, Mr President, I would like to say – on behalf of my colleague, Ilda Figueiredo, who has had to leave – that she also would like to express her solidarity with the victims of the oil slick, that she demands more rigorous control measures in order to prevent it happening again, that she considers it important to establish a list of sensitive maritime areas and that they must be subject to special protection in Galicia, Brittany and, as she points out, Portugal as well – which is close by – and she insists that the Erika I and II packages must be applied, and their dates brought forward, and she requests effective measures against flags of convenience and the mobilisation of the Solidarity Fund for the repair of environmental damage and compensation for the victims."@en1
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