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"People in countries with a coastline are well aware that sea pollution cuts across borders, and ships tend not to choose where to run aground. This is certainly the kind of issue in which national self-interest can be harmful. Economic areas can and must continue to be exclusive, but the sea is a common good and when there is an environmental tragedy it affects all of us. The right way forward is therefore for us to adopt a Community perspective to address the risks of maritime pollution.
As Mr de Grandes Pascual’s report correctly points out, and I take this opportunity to commend the rapporteur, what we need is a sustained, long-term financial framework that will deliver prevention for the Member States and enable them to use up-to-date, appropriate technical resources to protect our coasts from spills, such as those that have happened in the recent past. Furthermore, and equally importantly, the framework will lead to punishment for those responsible for environmental crimes.
Mr President, oil spills are always harmful and are sometimes criminal, yet financial spills can be harmful, too. Throwing money at the sea is not a solution in itself. I therefore support the multiannual funding model proposed here, and most importantly, the transparent, effective use thereof.
The EUR 154 million allocated to the European Maritime Safety Agency for 2007-2013 will hopefully help to implement the action plan to combat maritime pollution, to set up a framework of specialised stand-by vessels to take action in the four priority zones and to set up a satellite image service centre to support the activities of the Member States and the Commission in the fight against spills from vessels, among other tasks in the fight against pollution. This is a project which, with the amendments proposed by the Committee on Transport and Tourism and others, has our full backing, not least because it reinforces the idea that the Member States have a shared responsibility in this joint effort.
Mr President, we are not living in a
as the Romans would say; nowadays, the sea belongs to all, and is a global, shared responsibility. In adopting this resolution, we in Parliament are fulfilling our share of that responsibility."@en1
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