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What we are talking about is proposing that the Member States of the Union – and this is what I have presented for debate in the Council and in Parliament – define, including from a criminal point of view, with custodial sentences, sea pollution resulting from dumping, including the cleaning of hulls, when it is carried out – as the honourable Member says – deliberately at sea.
We are talking about this being a crime within 200 miles, within the exclusive economic zone. As I said before, this is supplemented by increased controls of maritime traffic. I believe – and we are going to begin some studies in this regard – that we are currently carrying out control of maritime traffic in relation to certain types of vessel, specifically oil tankers, and also in certain areas.
I believe that it is a matter of going a step further, of controlling all types of ships sailing, apart from traffic close to the coast, within three, four or five miles; that, from a certain distance from the coast, all traffic must be controlled. This would mean greater safety in a sea which is increasingly being used for maritime transport and recreational activities, but also in a sea which is increasingly polluted and which must be protected more thoroughly.
What is being done in the sky in relation to aircraft could also be done, with the appropriate modifications and variations, in relation to the sea, and that is what we are working on, beginning – I would insist – with the control of the oil tanker traffic entering European Union waters and of all traffic in certain areas of the European Union."@en1
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