Measures such as the strengthening of provisions for compensating people and indemnifying them for the loss of their property in the event of maritime accidents, the development and improvement of the system for exchanging data on the transport of dangerous substances, the monitoring of shipping traffic, the exchange of relevant information and the clarification of the nature and scope of safety investigations by permanent impartial bodies will help to establish clearer rules and to strengthen the joint work to be carried out by the various authorities concerned.

To the extent necessary for the proper functioning of the common organisation of the markets in the olive oil and table olive sector, the use of inward-processing arrangements for the products listed in Article 1(a) and (b) may be fully or partially prohibited in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(2).

- the use of third-country products brought in under inward-processing arrangements.

To the extent necessary for the proper functioning of the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector, the Commission may fully or partially prohibit the use of inward-processing arrangements for the products listed in Article 1(1) in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2).

6. When fixing the amount of the refund, account shall be taken in particular of the need to strike a balance between the use of Community basic products for export as processed goods to third countries and the use of products from these countries admitted for inward processing.

In this respect, I would also ask the Commission to tell us which methods it intends to adopt in order to improve, and make more efficient, the code of conduct with regard to the control of the trafficking in diamonds, in particular, given that, as the European institutions and the United Nations themselves have reported, on many occasions the fight for raw materials is behind many of the world’s conflicts, especially in Africa.