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In light of both the
oil tanker disaster and of the proposal adopted by this House, at the initiative of the signatory, to create a Community programme aimed exclusively at developing mechanisms to protect the EU’s external borders, in particular its maritime borders, I have followed this debate with great interest.
Any measures taken in the name of maritime safety are to be welcomed and correspond to a correctly identified general need. It is appropriate to focus not only on accidents but also on the main sources of maritime pollution, which are the systematic contraventions of legislation in this field. This also displays political awareness of the environmental problems affecting us.
I therefore voted in favour of the reports on maritime safety, with the exception of the Pex report, as I do not agree with the rapporteur’s proposal to create a European Coastguard.
The EU has an obligation to promote maritime safety and must not, under any circumstances, be relieved of this obligation. The creation of a European Coastguard would be a step too far, however. We would be better advised to encourage closer cooperation between Member States, which would in turn foster greater interoperability and compatibility of the resources available at intra-European level and would avoid wasteful duplication and overlapping."@en1
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