Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-11-Speech-2-403-750"
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"en.20120911.32.2-403-750"2
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"I voted in favour of the report on the sulphur content of marine fuels. With this directive, the EU is making provision for a reduction in the sulphur content of ship emissions to 0.1% by 2015 in the Baltic Sea, the English Channel and the North Sea. It therefore transposes into EU law an obligation required by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), which was difficult to ignore. The 2015 deadline, however, seems very premature given the economic and technical constraints that it will impose, especially on passenger shipping. The fear is that some ships will have to be withdrawn from the fleets, as there will be no way of adapting them to the new requirements, leading to the loss of hundreds of jobs in an economic context where passenger transport companies are facing difficulties. Negotiations in Parliament have, however, allowed us to confirm that State aid would be authorised to support the operators in this transition. There is also a reminder that Member States can still approach the IMO for an extension to deadlines to allow their fleets to be fitted out within the deadlines. These different safeguard measures have led me to approve the transposition of the European Union’s international obligations in this directive."@en1
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