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"Mr President, I would like firstly to congratulate the rapporteur, Luis de Grandes. I am delighted he is in such wonderful and enviable health. I must say that he has done a fantastic job in cooperation with the Council with a view to reaching an agreement at first reading, since it was important to guarantee the stability and the work of this Maritime Safety Agency.
The joint proposals take up two of the requests presented by Mrs Miguélez Ramos and myself. One of them was that, while this new programme extended the Agency’s control to noxious substances, we should not overlook the fact that oil was at its basis. Secondly – and Mrs Miguélez Ramos has already mentioned this – with regard to the division by regions, the initial deficiencies on either side should be resolved, since the conditions for the contracts had not provided much motivation for the shipowners of the region, who did not have any interest in making ships available, and that was exacerbated by the lack of insistence on the part of the Agency. As Mrs Miguélez Ramos has quite rightly said, that has now been overcome and we are facing a much more practical and better-organised future.
In any event, we would say to the Agency and to the Commission that, in this multiannual programme, we in the Committee on Budgetary Control will also be watching very carefully to ensure that the actions, the action plan, and hence the presence of the vessels, are sufficient to meet any needs that might arise, and that we no longer have to face those deficiencies that we have seen in the past.
I shall end with an observation and a request to Vice-President Barrot, who I know is well-known for paying great attention to this Parliament’s appeals. At a time when the maritime borders of my country, of Italy, Malta and Greece are demonstrating their great weakness, we would like the Frontex Agency to have at least the same capacity for deployment of vessels and resources for controlling and protecting our maritime borders as we are approving today for the Maritime Safety Agency.
I would ask Vice-President Barrot to help his colleague Mr Frattini within the Commission to ensure that the Frontex Agency has the necessary resources as soon as possible, since this summer we have been in great need of them."@en1
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