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Madam President, I should like first of all to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Satu Hassi, for her excellent work on the proposal for a directive on the sulphur content of marine fuels. The purpose of the directive is to reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide and suspended particles. These emissions relate directly to the sulphur content of marine fuels, which are currently 2.7% on average or 27 000 parts per million, at a time when fuels for road transport, as Mrs Hassi said earlier, are subject to a new sulphur limit of 10 parts per million.
The proposal therefore sets two limits for sulphur in marine fuels: a limit of 1.5% for all ships in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Channel and for all passenger ships throughout the European Union and a limit of 0.1% for vessels at berth in EU ports. These reductions will result in targeted reductions of emissions at no great cost, in a bid to combat acidification in northern Europe and improve at local level the air quality in all EU ports and coastal areas. The benefits to human health should include 2 000 life years saved every year as a result of improved air quality. As shipping is a global industry, it is important that the main points of the proposal have been brought into line with the internationally agreed regulations in Annex VI to the International Maritime Organisation's MARPOL Convention on the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships. The progress achieved at second reading of this proposal is satisfactory and I thank Parliament for the constructive role which it played in paving the way for agreement."@en1
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