Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-11-Speech-2-403-968"
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"Votes in the parliamentary committees had led to the adoption of untenable positions and I am pleased that the negotiations in trialogue have allowed us to arrive at a more balanced version of the text. Let us not lose sight of the major challenges for the shipping sector and the considerable impact that this directive will have on the activity. Obviously, there is a need to combat pollution from transport and reduce its environmental footprint across all means of transport. Not at any price, however. We must not place excessive restrictions on shipowners and customers that would damage the competitiveness and economic viability of the sector, which already faces strong competition. I had put forward the need to include accompanying measures as a corollary to the reduction in sulphur rates from shipping. The Commission must now propose how the toolbox that it has announced will be deployed in practice. I shall be watching this issue extremely closely. The EU is the leading maritime power and the world leader in the fight for the environment, proof, if it were required, that transport and sustainability are not incompatible, quite the contrary. It is up to us to introduce a considered, flexible policy that no longer pits the economy against the environment."@en1
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