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"Mr President, pollution crosses borders and requires urgent co-ordinated action to deal with its consequences, so it is wholly appropriate that we create at EU level a framework to deal with it.
I congratulate the Commissioner and our rapporteur for their excellent work on this matter, but it is only a start. The best cure is prevention. We, in Scotland, an oil-producing maritime nation, have a live debate on proposals to transfer oil from ship to ship at sea, in an area of special scientific interest covered by the Birds Directive, the River Forth, just north of Edinburgh. This is an area precious to Scotland's natural environment. There is almost total opposition to these proposals in Scotland and yet the United Kingdom Maritime and Coastguard Agency just yesterday gave its approval for these potentially disastrous plans to go forward. Fortunately, the EU can take a bigger view. Commissioner Dimas has launched an investigation into the potential environmental consequences of these proposals and I hope his investigation will stop these proposals from being implemented.
While I welcome and support the Commission's proposals, they are a start. I believe we can go further. I believe my Group wants us to go further still. These proposals are stopping a disaster from happening but, of course, dealing with its consequences is only part of the picture, we must prevent them also."@en1
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