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Mr President, on 3Â December, the Commission approved a communication on the measures to be taken as a result of the accident involving the oil tanker
. This document contains detailed proposals for a series of measures and, in particular, speeds up the application of the legislation approved by Parliament and the Council following the
disaster, the so-called
and
packages.
The Transport Council of 6 December supported the majority of the initiatives proposed by the Commission. Therefore, on 20 December, the College approved a proposal for a regulation, which has just been sent to the Council and to Parliament, prohibiting the transport of heavy oils by single-hull oil tankers destined for or originating from European Union ports and speeding up the replacement of this type of oil tanker by double-hull oil tankers.
The European Union has not waited for the recent events to happen to implement an agreed maritime safety policy. There was already a wide range of measures for guaranteeing better protection in this field. The Commission takes good note of Parliament’s contribution to the work of the Convention with regard to the creation of a European coastguard body as an effective means of fighting the danger of pollution and maintaining maritime safety.
The recurrence of accidents such as the
or the
not to mention other lesser ones such as the
just a few days ago, demonstrates that the whole of Europe would gain from a European coastguard body, particularly in view of the fact that some of the 25 future States of the Union have absolutely no type of protection or body of this nature.
In any event, the main task of the European Maritime Safety Agency, which is soon to be created, is to technically coordinate the application of Community rules, and the Commission will study which measures must be adopted in the future, in view of the experiences of the Agency."@en1
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