Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 8 June 2016 - Strasbourg

Ratification and accession to the 2010 Protocol to the Hazardous and Noxious Substances Convention with the exception of aspects related to judicial cooperation in civil matters (A8-0191/2016 - Pavel Svoboda)

  Marian Harkin (ALDE), in writing. ‒ This interim resolution ensures that a clear obligation is imposed on Member States to take all necessary steps to achieve a concrete result, namely to ratify or accede to the 2010 HNS Convention within a reasonable timeframe, which should be no longer than two years. It will also ensure that the uniformity, integrity and effectiveness of common Union rules will not be adversely affected by the international commitments undertaken by the ratification of or accession to the 2010 HNS Convention. Further, I also support the provision which advocates the removal of the permanent co-existence of two maritime liability regimes – a Union-based one and an international one in favour of a single coherent regime.