6 Amendments of Anni PODIMATA related to 2007/2279(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Strongly recommends that efforts in the European Union should be aimed above allEmphasises the need to reinforce the actions taken by the Commission and the Member States, at European and international level, aimed at safeguarding the minimum standards that ensure the highest levels of environmental, health and safety protection and at adherence to the principle enshrined in the Basel Ban Amendment (Articles 34 and 36 of the Waste Shipment Regulation), which is to ban the export of hazardous wastes, even as part of an obsolete vessel, to developing countrie to developing countries; to this end calls on the Commission to propose a regulation on the design and construction of ships, their operation throughout their life-cycle and their preparation for recycling, the operation of ship recycling facilities and the establishment of an appropriate enforcement mechanism for ship recycling, incorporating certification and reporting requirements;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission toand the Member States to actively participate in the negotiateions within the International Maritime Organisation to ensure the adoption, in the forthcoming convention, of an equivalent level of independent control and enforcement to that adopted in the Basel Convention and in the Basel Ban Amendment and also the incorporation, with due consideration to labour conditions and the associated health and safety issues, of the aforementioned minimum standards that ensure the highest environmental protection;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States in the context of the IMO negotiations to propose the establishment of a sustainable funding mechanism that ensures clean, safe ship dismantling, especially in scrap yards in south Asia;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. In order to prevent the transfer of hazardous waste to developing countries calls on the Commission to encourage the building up of sufficient ship dismantling capacity in the EU and to publish a list of dismantling sites that fulfil the minimum environmental, health and safety requirements;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that efforts must be made by the Member States and the Commission to create a mandatory ship recycling fund to which shipowners wouljointly funded by shipyards and shipowners (for example by means of taxes levied contribute during the normal life of their ship and new ships, port fees and annual taxes linked to IMO registration) and with shared responsibility, which would facilitate the pre-cleaning of vessels of hazardous materials and the development of ship recycling yards in the Union, thus preventing the transfer of hazardous wastes to developing countries;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all government ships are recycled within the Union and strongly encourages them to do likewise with warships;