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Setting up a temporary European Parliament committee on improving safety at sea is the commitment that will enable us to overcome the hostility of our colleagues on the right to any initiative that would help to determine the causes of the major disaster that resulted from the shipwreck of the
and to determine who was responsible. I refer specifically to the possibility of setting up a committee of inquiry, as we proposed.
The creation of this temporary committee, which we welcome, is therefore the outcome of a long and persistent process of negotiation. We want the results of its work to make a real contribution to improving safety at sea, achieving the aims for which it was created, which are:
to study maritime disasters, in particular those of the
and
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to analyse their social and economic consequences, with regard in particular to fisheries, industry and tourism, as well as the environment and health;
to assess current international safety standards and the way in which these are applied;
to help to ensure implementation of the recommendations that have already been adopted by the EP and to complement them if necessary.
In the EP’s recommendations that must be implemented, I would highlight, amongst others, withdrawing single-hulled petrol tankers, increasing resources for inspections, appropriate training for seamen, increasing resources for emergency pollution control measures and setting up safe havens, equipped with emergency apparatus."@en1
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