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The European Union and all its Mediterranean coastal Member States, together with 14 other Mediterranean countries, are Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean, commonly known as the ‘Barcelona Convention’. One of the protocols to the Barcelona Convention, known as the ‘Offshore Protocol’, deals with the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution resulting from exploration of the continental shelf and the seabed and its subsoil. The Protocol entered into force on 24 March 2011 and some Member States who are Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention have already announced, in recent months, their intention to ratify the Protocol. However, the EU has neither signed nor ratified it. So, with a view to promoting international cooperation to improve the safety of offshore exploitation, the EU’s ratification of this Protocol is an important step, particularly if we take account of the need to respond to the foreseeable increase in offshore activities in the Mediterranean due to the discovery of new fossil fuel reserves, and in order to guarantee a policy of sustainable governance of offshore oil and gas exploration, exploitation and production activities. I therefore voted in favour of the EU’s accession to the Protocol."@en1
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