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February 3, 2012
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- Kallas: a total re-examination of safety of the fleeting ships in center is necessary EU and IMO
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- Encounter with a delegation of the European Cruise Council
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 Today the vice president of the EU commission, Siim Kallas, in charge of the transports, has received a delegation of the European Cruise Council (ECC) guided from the president Manfredi Lefebvre d' Ovid in order to light make the point on safety of the ships from cruise of the tragic shipwreck of the Coast Concord 13th January to Isola del Giglio.-
- Kallas has confirmed that the EU commission strongly is determined to promote a re-examination of safety of the ships near the International Maritime Organization (IMO) with the objective to guarantee that the incolumità of the European citizens who embark themselves on any ship in any part of the world is assured by the most advanced safeguards measures.
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- In particular, the European commissioner has evidenced the necessity of a twofold approach with the IMO: as a result of the review of safety of the fleeting ships in existence near the European Union - it has explained - the EU will propose a strengthening of the most recent standards of the IMO or will propose new minimal norms EU, some of which could constitute the base for normative new of the IMO.
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- The next initiatives of the EU commission will be the start the next April of a public consultation on safety of the fleeting ships with the objective of a review of the legislation, while, always in the course of the next spring, Kallas will accommodate a conference on safety of the fleeting ships with the interested parts. The Commission has remembered that, from part its, the IMO has announced that will examine the topic of safety of the fleeting ships in occasion of the reunion of own Navy Safety Committee in program from the 16 to 25 May next.
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- Manfredi Lefebvre d' Ovid has joined to the Kallas in receiving with favor the review of the norms on safety of the fleeting ships from the IMO and has confirmed the interest to work in constructive way with the EU and IMO: "moreover - it has added - we are pleased to update the Commission on the procedures that the world-wide industry of the cruises has already put in existence which part of own review of safety of the operating activity to the aim to collect, to confront and to sift the best practical new that could gush from the lessons of the Concord".
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- "If the field of the cruises anticipates a remarkable record of safety - it has continued Manfredi Lefebvre d' Ovid - is important that we learn the introduced lessons the tragedy so to engage itself in this horizontal review. We will work in constructive way with the Commission, the IMO and the other authorities in order to supply and to put into effect other measures and best-practice in the short possible time. To such fine the companies associated to the ETC are to the job in order to get ahead the customary engagements with the institutions of the EU and in order to guarantee the full involvement of which they take care of marine safety".
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- "I receive with favor and I approve of - Kallas has commented - the engagement in existence from the European Cruise Council and of its associates to pursue actively a high level of safety on board of all their ships and to support the legislative review in course. Recent the tragic incident of the Coast Concord supplies an ulterior impulse on board see again and to improve the safety dispositions".
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- "It is confirmed Me - it has added the European commissioner - than the industry has undertaken a review of its practical and operating safety procedures, between which navigation, the evacuation of the ship, the formation on the emergencies and the activities correlated. I have emphasized that the learned lessons must be shared are with the Commission are with the International Maritime Organization".
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- "Safety - it has concluded Kallas - is the absolute priority. The passengers must have the certainty that the same ones elevated standard of safety will be applied anytime and in any place they travel. We have the necessity that, to complement of the review of safety of the fleeting ships currently in course inside of the EU, an international re-examination at the level of the IMO guarantees that the lessons learned in safety matter are applied not only in Europe, but to all the fleeting ships in service".
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