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We welcome the initiative to establish an action framework in the area of marine environment policy, with the appropriate financial resources. Given its strategic importance, the Member States must set out assessment strategies and environmental objectives for their marine environment, in collaboration with the other Member States or with third countries, this after all being an issue in which one country’s actions may have a knock-on effect in other countries.
There is a key question throughout this process, and that is who owns and manages the sea areas to which this directive applies. Both the proposed directive and the amendments adopted today in the Lienemann report begin with the definition of ‘European marine waters’, which fails to clarify what our exclusive economic zone is and what the role of each Member State is in this context.
As regards the creation of supranational bodies, there is no indication as to whether this is a decision that can only be taken unanimously on the basis of the principle of sovereign States with equal rights or whether, contrariwise, this can be imposed by a majority as proposed in the so-called European Constitution. Given the lack of clarity on these issues, we abstained from the final vote."@en1
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