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"The much-vaunted directive which, various forces advertised, would apparently punish shipping companies with criminal sanctions for polluting the sea and would protect the environment has achieved exactly the opposite. It protects shipping capital from the imposition of sanctions against it. Even this inadequate Commission proposal is dead letter following the proposal by the European Parliament not to punish minor ship-source discharges of polluting substances. Our people know full well what minor discharges are and who will judge them and on what criteria. The inhabitants of Santorini, for example, who have protested about the wreck of the
cruise ship, which is still in the island’s waters, are sick of the replies given by the EU and the New Democracy government – the same replies given by PASOK in the case of the
car ferry and others – that apparently wrecks do not cause pollution.
With the loophole of minor discharges of polluting substances, shipowners, operators, managers, agents, insurers, charterers, cargo and ship owners and those responsible for crimes at sea and environmental disasters will go unpunished. On the other hand, very strict use will again be made of seamen as scapegoats."@en1
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