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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, amendments to the directive on the sulphur content in fuel used in shipping are necessary in order to reduce the volume of noxious gases emitted from shipping fuels, thereby reducing acid rain and improving air quality in Europe. Making a sufficient quantity of such fuel available would ensure improved air quality in the immediate vicinity of ports and coasts and reduce the harmful effect of acidic emissions on human health. I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Hassi, for her excellently organised work and discussion on this issue and on the fact that we have reached an agreement which attains the objectives which were put forward. I am grateful to all those who supported our group’s proposal on a review report. Currently many issues are being debated on the basis of presumptions and not facts. Once the appropriate research has been carried out, we will still have to find a further solution which is the most environmentally friendly and most economically justified one – a solution which takes account of precise answers to various important questions. Does the production of reduced sulphur content fuel consume so much energy that it is likely to intensify the greenhouse effect? It is necessary to look at our priorities in strict compliance with the Kyoto protocol, since the adoption of this directive will increase the costs of water transport. Might the increase seriously threaten the cornerstone of the European Union’s transport policy, namely the reduction of transport by land truck and the redirection of the flow of freight towards other forms of transport? We must discuss our future actions also with the International Maritime Organisation, or else we may end up with a situation where changes affect only vessels registered in the European Union and those vessels whose final destination is Europe. Meanwhile, transit transport vessels will be able to use substantially cheaper fuel. In this event our maritime sector would be threatened and we might expect vessels in our fleet to be re-registered under the flags of third countries. The adverse effect of shipping emission gases must be reduced.
I call for serious work to be done on the review procedure so that in the long term we may have a high-performance fleet of vessels and so that appropriate protection may be provided for the European Union’s environment and public health."@en1
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