WRITTEN QUESTION E-3587/02 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council. EU disaster area status for the Galician coast following the wreck of the Prestige.
Date: 2002-12-13
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Council of the European Union, Galicia, access to EU information, disaster area, maritime transport, oil pollution, parliamentary session

C 222 E/86

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

18.9.2003

(2003/C 222 E/100)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3584/02

by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council

(13 December 2002)

Subject: The ‘ERIKA’ legislative packages and the US Oil Pollution Act of 1990

On what grounds did the Council, in the aftermath of the wreck of the ‘ERIKA’ tanker and even prior to
the successive disasters which have affected the Galician coast,
in the shape of the wrecks of the
‘Polycommander’, ‘Aegean Sea’, ‘Urquiola’ and ‘Casón’, fail to include within the ‘ERIKA’ legislative packages
the type of strict financial guarantee and safety requirements which are placed on shipowners and vessels
by the US Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (passed following the ‘Exxon Valdez’ disaster)?

(2003/C 222 E/101)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3587/02

by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council

(13 December 2002)

Subject: EU disaster area status for the Galician coast following the wreck of the ‘Prestige’

In the wake of the wreck of the ‘Prestige’ and of the six similar accidents which have occurred in recent
years in Galicia (cid:1) which has thus become the area of the world most affected by such tragic accidents (cid:1)
and in view of the political causes or omissions underlying those accidents, does the Council intend to
declare the Galician coast a disaster area, channelling the financial and political resources required to
undertake the economic, social and economic recovery of Galicia?

(2003/C 222 E/102)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3589/02

by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council

(13 December 2002)

Subject: Specific measures by the Council to prevent or tackle the consequences of maritime disasters in

the major sea corridor bordering the Galician coast

What specific measures have been taken by the Council to prevent or tackle the consequences of maritime
disasters in the major sea corridor that borders the Galician coast, in the wake of the successive tragic
disasters which have affected Galicia over recent years?

(2003/C 222 E/103)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3625/02

by Paolo Costa (ELDR), Giovanni Procacci (ELDR), Luciano Caveri (ELDR),
Francesco Rutelli (ELDR), Dirk Sterckx (ELDR), Rosa Miguélez Ramos (PSE),
Gilles Savary (PSE), Luciana Sbarbati (ELDR), Marco Formentini (ELDR),
Giovanni Fava (PSE), Massimo Carraro (PSE)
and Helena Torres Marques (PSE) to the Council

(16 December 2002)

Subject: Safety at sea

The regulatory and legislative measures adopted after the ERIKA disaster three years ago have not been
sufficient to prevent another, unprecedented, maritime disaster in the EU.

Although it had a single hull and was 26 years old, the oil tanker Prestige had not been inspected since
1999. In view of this latest accident, does the Council intend, at the European summit in mid-December,
to propose bringing forward the timetable laid down by the regulation on the accelerated phasing-in of
double-hull or equivalent design standards for single-hull oil tankers and to ban all single-hull oil and
chemical tankers from European coastal waters, in particular near the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts,
with immediate effect?