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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-02-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Pollution from ships2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050222.17.2-335"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-02-22-Speech-2-3362
lpv:speaker	lp:Dimitrios Papadimoulis2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Synaspismos tis Aristeras ton Kinimaton kai tis Oikologias (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the large majority of my political group supports the proposal and rejects the amendments which seek to weaken it. The large majority of citizens call for stricter measures to prevent pollution from ships, which affects not only the environment and public health but also fishing and tourism. The package of measures which we are debating today endeavours to complete a task which started years ago and which has been delayed on account of reactions from three Member States which were against the Commission's original proposal for a directive. How can you be against such a directive, when you calculate the ecological cost? The cost to the fishing industry and the cost from the blow to tourism and from the unemployment which plagues areas hit by oil pollution. In 1999 alone, in the area of the Mediterranean – and the Mediterranean is a closed sea – 1 638 cases of illegal dumping were reported. Think how many there were which were not reported because they were not identified. A similar number of oil slicks was identified in 2001 in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. For reasons of the protection of the marine environment and the need for a positive step to be taken at long last, we accept the points of the compromise amendments, even though they do not fully satisfy us. Finally, I should like to call on the Greek Government, the government of my country, to abandon its policy of stonewalling. Greece, as a world shipping power, should not be acting as rear guard; it should be at the vanguard in combating pollution from ships and, with its constructive stand, should not leave room for criticism to be levelled at the Greek fleet."@en1

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