Das Verbot der Finanzierung neuer Schiffe ändert nichts an den Gefahren und Problemen einer alternden Flotte. ###>Mr President, my primary observation has to be that the proposed structural and cohesion funding package for 2007-2013 fails to provide adequately for those regions within the EU-15 which, though themselves deficient in infrastructure investment, failed because of the national criteria to qualify for cohesion funds.