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The ECSA exhorts to introduce fleeting cargo handling and services in the regulations project EU on the harbour services
the shipowning association denunciation the attempt to insert in the legislative proposal ulterior restrictions on the pretext of the social protection
October 12, 2015
Today the Commission for transport and tourism (TRAN) of the European Parliament resume the examination of the proposal of regulations of the Parliament and the Council for the definition of a normative picture for the access at the market of the harbour services and the transparency financial institution of the ports. The association of the European shipowners has evidenced that the members of the Parliamentary commission would be taking in consideration important simplifications of the proposal of the EU commission that, based on the modifications introduced from the reporter Knut Fleckenstein, would return the procedures for the limitation and the selection of the lenders of harbour services very simpler.
"We receive with favor this approach", Patrick Verhoeven, general secretary of the European Comminity Shipowners' Associations (ECSA has declared). "It is in the interest of all - it has added - that the procedures are most transparent and simple possible. With the modifications proposed on the table - it has found Verhoeven - we do not see some reason in order to maintain the current exemption of cargo handling and the fleeting services, neither least of all is justified the ulterior exclusion of the pilotage proposed from some deputies. We therefore, in the interest of the certainty of the right and a lot appreciated "level playing field", we encourage the deputies to go towards an approach including".
According to the association of the European shipowners, it would be moreover in existence the attempt to introduce in the legislative proposal ulterior restrictions on the pretext of the social protection. "We - the general secretary of the ECSA has explained - support the proposals that try to improve the qualifications, safety and the conditions of job of the dependent. However - he has emphasized Verhoeven - we cannot accept attempts to impose disproportionate restrictions to the new operators of the market through the unjust application of norms in matter on the transfer of enterprises".
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