the UK Chamber of critical Shipping the legislative initiatives of the EU in marine field



The British UK Chamber of Shipping has published an own study on the impact that the norms of the Europe Union have on the field of the marine transport of the United Kingdom, analysis that is introduced with the specific scope to supply to the Prime Minister of Downing Street elements of which considering in the definition of norms in communitarian center that they can have an important effect on an industry that - it has remembered the organization that has the mission to safeguard the interests of the shipping British - supports almost 500.000 places of job in the United Kingdom and generates a value pairs to ten billions of pounds.

The UK Chamber of Shipping has specified, than between the main reliefs to politics in marine field of the EU, the study it evidences as the ideological approach face to realize a Union more and more coesa is "distraction source" and that "in 21° the century its importance would have to be mail in argument". For the UK Chamber of Shipping, the EU commission would have also to change to own approach face to "a where possible Europe" in an approach turned to "a whereby necessary Europe". However the study admits that the European only market has generated enormous advantages for the field of the marine transports and that the EU commission would have to be concentrated on the removal of the last obstacles with the scope to improve the only market ulteriorly, in order to make of the "guard dog" to safeguard of the free exchange.

According to the British organization, moreover, it would be necessary to set to an entire re-examination of the current communitarian norm and its formulation with the objective to eliminate useless norms, that they have not produced good results or that they are obsolete.

Commenting the results of the study, the director of the UK Chamber of Shipping, David Balston, it has specified that he is completely obvious who "some elements of the European Union work well, but - it has added - its mission is slipping out of the hands and goes more and more in the direction of a Union coesa that it distracts from that counts: the creation of an only market that is competitive in 21° the century".

"The field of the marine transports - it has continued Balston - is based on the commerce and any mechanism that can encourage the free exchange is something that instinctively we support. But not there is doubt that the impact of some communitarian norms places the United Kingdom and other European nations in a situation of competitive disadvantage. The shipping it has a total regolator who is the International Maritime Organisation, that he creates parity of conditions to total level. But - it has found Balston - when a regional power as the European Union creates own norms, then this scene of parity of conditions to total level is distorted and the main marine nations, as the United Kingdom, of it suffer the impact more than others".