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"I am delighted by the decision just taken by our Assembly to create, as I myself had requested, a temporary commission of the European Parliament devoted to safety at sea. This decision shows how important it is for us that this issue – which is of profound concern to our fellow citizens, particularly those on the Atlantic coast who have been doubly hit by the last two oil slicks – should be handled, at the appropriate levels, with all the rigour and consistency required, in order to prevent the occurrence of other, similar disasters.
The mandate of this temporary commission would have been perfectly clear and would have appeared devoid of petty political ulterior motives if the oral amendment presented by the rapporteur had not been the subject of genuine obstruction by the socialist MEPs. On a subject as important as this, petty manoeuvring should not be acceptable.
Whatever the case, it is, in actual fact, following the double disaster of the
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that it appears necessary to take stock of the relevance of the measures adopted, of the initiatives taken by the Member States and regions affected by the oil slicks, of the issues of liability and compensation and, above all, of the persistent gaps in international law concerning ships in transit outside territorial waters."@en1
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