Translation of "Loi sur le transport de marchandises par mer " (French → English) :

(1) The Community's maritime safety policy is aimed at a high level of safety and environmental protection and is based on the understanding that all parties involved in the transport of goods by sea have a responsibility for ensuring that ships used in Community waters comply with applicable rules and standards.

The second reason why we will be voting in favour is that this House will be able to get the Commission to examine to what extent limited liability, as provided for in international conventions, is at present possible when goods are transported by sea.

(1) The Community's maritime safety policy is aimed at a high level of safety and environmental protection and is based on the understanding that all parties involved in the transport of goods by sea have a responsibility for ensuring that ships used in Community waters comply with applicable rules and standards.

Shipper means any person by whom or in whose name or on whose behalf a contract of carriage of goods by sea has been concluded with a carrier, or any person by whom or in whose name or on whose behalf the goods are actually delivered to the carrier in relation to the contract of carriage by sea.

objective: to know the economic environment of road goods transport and the organisation of the market guidelines: knowledge of the economic environment of road goods transport: road goods transport sector in relation to other road transport sectors, road goods transport in relation to other modes of goods transport (rail, air, sea), different road goods transport activities (transport for hire or reward, own account, auxiliary transport activities), organisation of the main types of road goods transport company and auxiliary transport activities, different transport specialisations (road tanker, controlled temperature, etc), ...[+++]changes in the industry (diversification of services provided, rail-road, subcontracting, etc); business and standards: business and the business environment (competition, shippers), commercial and financial effects of a dispute, procedure for certification of transport companies;

As I mentioned previously, to fulfil the legal requirement contained in the Carriage of Goods by Water Act, 1993, and as part of the first review period, the Minister of Transport submitted a report to parliament in December of last year in which he concluded: first, the Hague-Visby rules should be retained in the current Carriage of Goods by Water Act until the next review period ending January 1, 2005 and, second, Transport Canad ...[+++]a should continue to make efforts in consultation with industry and in co-operation with like-minded countries with a view to developing practical options for a new international regime of liability for the carriage of goods by sea, which would achieve a greater uniformity than the Hague-Visby rules.