Traduction de «Non-combat ship » (Anglais → Français) :

The resurgence of acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia led the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to adopt a series of measures at its 86th session from 27 May to 5 June 2009. It issued a number of circulars either updating the general recommendations in force on the measures to combat piracy and armed robbery against ships or defining specific measures to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia.

143. Considers that EMSA, FRONTEX, the Fisheries Agency and the Environment Agency have various instruments at their disposal which could usefully be combined to provide effective support to a European maritime policy; therefore urges the Commission not only to remove obstacles to cooperation between these agencies, but to formalise such cooperation in order to achieve the following: (1) safety at sea and the protection of the marine environment (including fisheries inspection), protection from terrorism, piracy and criminal acts at sea and illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing; (2) coordinated fisheries inspections and equal enforcement throughout the EU with equal penalties and sanctions being applied in the courts of Member ...[+++] States (3) strict monitoring of compliance with designated shipping routes and prosecution for illegal discharges from ships; rapid, coordinated response in the event of an accident, deploying the necessary measures as soon as possible, including designating places of refuge and ports for emergency use and combating illegal immigration; reiterates its call, included in the final report of the Temporary Committee on improving safety at sea (MARE), for a European coastguard service to be set up and asks the Commission to come forward with the study on its feasibility as soon as possible;

– Mr President, like others I welcome these reports on combating ship-source pollution.

- Finally, the proposal for granting the agency responsibility for prevention and combating of pollution from ships leaves many questions hanging. This is partly due to a lack of clarity in the proposal's wording and a lack of detail with regard to the manner in which use will be made of the means made available to the agency for combating pollution.

This Directive aims to protect the health and safety of seafarers on board ships using European Union (EU) ports, combat distortions of competition from shipowners of non-EU countries and protect the health and safety of seafarers on board ships using EU ports.

- combat the lack of transparency in maritime transport by introducing stricter obligations to publish information relating to inspections and ship detentions and by developing the EQUASIS database on the quality of ships;