Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-09-13-Speech-1-068"
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"en.20040913.6.1-068"2
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"Mr President, the Commissioner has recounted a scandalous story to us. For four years, a ghost ship with forged documents has been breaking every rule, every directive, every international convention, and there is no way of applying legislation and the law. It is driven out of Algeria and goes to Turkey. Turkey does not want it, but no one can impose what, for the rest, we all want to vote through. We face a huge ecological disaster and a huge failure on the part of the European Commission to practise what it quite rightly preaches. It is therefore time to stop merely talking and to start acting. I call, on behalf of my political group and as a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
for the Commission to apply the 'polluter pays' principle at long last, not only to those who owned the vessel but also to those who owned the product, the cargo, and to everyone else involved in this saga. The basic political conclusion, if we are honest, is that rich industry in the north must stop using poorer countries in the south as one big illegal dumping ground for toxic waste. We are talking about 2 200 tonnes of waste, containing carcinogenic chromium, contaminating the waters of the Mediterranean and we know full well that contamination has cross-border repercussions. Commissioner, it is time for action, not just the right words."@en1
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