Mark has achieved success on a future change in the law on marine oil transfers. Following the campaigning on Mark's Private Members’ bill, the Environmental Protection (Transfers at Sea) Bill, the UK Government has announced moves to improve the regulation of potentially damaging ship to ship oil transfers around the UK.
In a debate on Mark’s Private Members’ bill on 25 January, the Shipping Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, promised to consult on legislation to regulate ship-to-ship transfers of cargoes of oil or other hazardous substances in United Kingdom waters.
The Minister said that the consultation exercise would be timetabled to commence in the Spring and that changes to the law would go before Parliament during the Summer.
You can find more information about the Bill campaign on ship-to-ship transfers here |