Chamber of Shipping media release

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31 Jul 2008

The Chamber welcomes the Joint Committee’s report on the draft Marine Bill The Chamber of Shipping yesterday welcomed the Joint Committee’s report into the draft Marine Bill and notes many of the concerns expressed by industry were included in the report’s recommendations.  In particular, the Chamber was pleased that the Joint Committee recommended: the need for sufficient resources to be allocated to the new Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to deliver a better licensing servic -  the need for careful deliberation to be given to the inter-relationship between the MMO and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
- the need for reasonable safeguards to be put in place and proper consideration given when Statutory Instruments (SI) are used by the Secretary of State The Chamber is confident that given the excellent consultation process and two-way engagement to date that these concerns will be fully taken into consideration by the Marine Bill team
and a satisfactory outcome reached.
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Source: Chamber of Shipping