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On a related matter, may I say, Mrs Ainardi, that – like the European Parliament – the Council reacted immediately to the accident involving the
off the coast of Galicia in November 2002.
The Council takes account of Parliament’s resolutions and endorses most of the principles contained in them. To be precise, the Council endorsed the objective of banning substandard ships from European Union waters.
In one of the measures contained in the conclusions which it issued on 6 December on maritime security and the prevention of pollution, the Council expressed its support for the ongoing work in the IMO to develop a flag state code and a compulsory model audit scheme aimed at ensuring that flag states carry out their duties under the international conventions. Generally speaking, the Council stressed the necessity to re-examine international rules concerning the law of the seas and maritime transport that lead to irresponsibilities and negligence tolerated by certain open registers.
The Commission may take the initiative and propose special measures for ships sailing under so-called flags of convenience. However, the Council is convinced that the objective set can be achieved by making a better choice of measures applied against ships which are substandard, for example by stepping up port state controls. Current legislation allows port state controls to be stepped up on the basis of the criteria for classifying substandard ships. These criteria are laid down in the Paris Memorandum of Understanding and include the ship’s flag.
In addition, under the port state directive, which must enter into force by 22 July 2003 and which forms part of the Erika I package, Member States may refuse port access to various categories of ships flying the flag of a country on the black list published in the annual report of the Memorandum of Understanding which have already been detained in the past."@en1
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