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Mr Nogueira, firstly, in relation to your last comments, I do not see that conflict between the positions of the Commission and of the Council. At the Transport Council on 6 December, conclusions were unanimously approved which stated that the States are committed at national level, until we have a Community proposal, to adopting measures aimed at excluding from their ports any ships transporting bituminous products (heavy fuel oil, heavy oil, tars) which do not have a double hull. And the country which I know best, just like the honourable Member, has already taken a measure which entered into force on 1 January this year, and certain other countries have adopted it as well.
Secondly, as well as this proposal, they have committed themselves to adopting, before June, an accelerated timetable for the departure of single-hull ships transporting oil from European ports.
Thirdly, they have committed themselves to speeding up the implementation of all the measures adopted in the
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packages and therefore not to wait until July of this year or February 2004 to do so. In particular, I am awaiting a response to the delicate issue of the famous ports of refuge; in principle, the Member States of the Union have the time limit of February 2004, but I hope they will communicate it to us before that – some countries are beginning to work on this – and I hope that they will do so before the summer.
I would therefore insist that I believe there is considerable agreement. The
tragedy has been a real wake-up call for all the Member States of the Union.
I would like to have the powers of the federal government of the United States, but the European Union is not a federation and the Commission is not therefore the federal government of a United States of Europe; I would not mind if it were, and if I were a Minister in that federal government, but that is not the case. Despite this, we have proposed a series of measures which are very similar to the American proposal, except on the timetable – which, I insist, we are going to raise again so that it may be speeded up – and on the amount of compensation, which is on the table with the Ministers and must be discussed, and if it is not adopted by the International Maritime Organisation, the Ministers have committed themselves to proposing it at European level.
Finally, I would like to say to the honourable Member that I have nothing against the Maritime Safety Agency, but rather I am entirely in favour of it, but it is not I who decides. This will be decided by the European Council at the appropriate time."@en1
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