Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-22-Speech-1-068"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Safety at sea2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030922.5.1-068"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-22-Speech-1-0692
lpv:speaker	lp:Samuli Pohjamo2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen Keskusta (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I too wish to thank Mr Dirk Sterckx for his excellent preparation of this report. It focuses attention on absolutely essential matters regarding safety at sea. Mr Sterckx has worked hard in drafting this report and, moreover, he, together with Mr Vermeer, has proposed many well justified amendments, which I hope the whole of Parliament will support. When improving safety at sea it is essential that the existing international rules are complied with. Countries must have clear contingency plans. There has to be adequate salvage and oil-slick control equipment to ensure that, when necessary, it can be at the scene of an accident quickly and that a catastrophe such as this never happens again. I also would like to stress that the decisions taken within the Union alone are not enough to increase safety at sea. Questions of responsibility must be dealt with on a global basis. In order to improve safety at sea we need global agreements concluded within the International Maritime Organisation. I also would like to mention an example. The number of consignments of oil passing through the Gulf of Finland from Russia has been increasing very fast. At the same time, the risk of an accident involving petroleum products in the environmentally highly sensitive area of the Baltic Sea has grown quickly. It is essential for Baltic traffic that Russia is included in all these agreements on safety at sea. The risk is further increased in the wintertime by the serious problems of ice in northern sea areas. I would like to use this opportunity to ask the Commissioner when the Commission intends to issue an ice classification directive applicable to the Union. I furthermore propose that the Commission should draft a communication on the development of traffic networks in the Union’s northern area which would also give pride of place to matters of safety at sea."@en1

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