Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-20-Speech-2-016"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-04-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Safety at sea2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040420.2.2-016"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-20-Speech-2-0172
lpv:speaker	lp:María Luisa Bergaz Conesa2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (2003-07-24--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (2003-09-01--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2003-08-29--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-26--2004-04-21)3 member; PETI (2003-09-01--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Izquierda Unida (2003-07-24--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2003-08-29--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2003-09-01--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I must also thank Mr Sterckx for producing such an excellent report following the work done in the last few months in committee, with the help of experts from the various countries. The work in the MARE Committee has enabled us to look in depth at the disaster and its environmental consequences, and the need to make progress on safety at sea. My colleague Mr Sterckx has produced an excellent report following discussions with experts and the meeting with the captain. It is clear that the decision to move the away was an error, so we urgently need to create a network of ports of refuge on European coastlines, and progress has already been made on this, as the Commissioner has said. As the report says, we need to provide this network with financial compensation for problems, including environmental problems, due to providing refuge for vessels carrying dangerous cargo. The Commission needs to be quicker and stricter in applying its Directives on safety at sea to the Member States and it needs to create the right conditions in cooperation at international level. Although it is a positive report, our group abstained in the vote in committee because it does not include some matters that are fundamental for the safety of the environment and of seafarers. An environmental principle is amongst the content that we think should be adopted as part of the report: ‘the polluter pays’. It should therefore be incorporated into Amendment No 3 by the GUE/NGL and a new paragraph be added stating: ‘Decisions need to be adopted to ensure that those responsible for disasters pay the full costs of them: owners, charterers, owners of the cargo and classification societies, and in the interests of security, to ban flags of convenience in European waters’. The amendment on dignity for seafarers, their pay and valuing their work should also be supported. Measures cannot be taken without reviewing the situation of seafarers and considering exploitation and we cannot make one hundred percent progress on safety if we do not establish the situation of seafarers and their welfare in the report. The GUE/NGL Group considers these amendments to be fundamental in order for such a positive report to be one hundred percent positive."@en1
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