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"en.20030602.8.1-127"2
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"I personally endorse, as does my Group, the Commission’s aim in introducing this regulatory measure, which, in any event, we support. We have to say, however, that it has been a long time in coming, since we have already endured the
disaster, which happened when the ship should no longer have been at sea according to the terms of the Commission’s initial proposals. The measure is overdue and falls well short of what is required. The Union should adopt political and legislative measures to ban single hull ships carrying dangerous goods such as petroleum derivatives from sailing anywhere in waters under European Union economic control, and not just ban such ships from entering Community ports and using Community anchorages, as the Regulation does.
We would like, furthermore, to see ‘sensitive coastal areas’ defined in this Regulation, and entry to them restricted for oil tankers posing a particular risk. In any case, we must be aware – and the blame lies with certain Member States of the European Union and with this House – that, over and above the proposals for double hulls, which we support, there are no political and legislative measures either in place or envisaged capable of preventing a fresh disaster if a new
case were to occur. We Galicians are vividly and painfully aware of this fact. After this Regulation, and even in spite of it, a new
may once again sail off the shores of Galicia and other affected countries; there is no law to prevent it."@en1
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