Mollusc dredgers, which may cause long term environmental damage, should surely be outlawed under the precautionary principle.
You can get there at any stage of the tide without any dredger.
Item 8 concerns four dredgers, and the first are to be delivered 24 months after the placing of the order.
Is this dredger to be handed over to one harbour and to work there for a month or two while all the others wait?
Applications for the services of the dredgers are under consideration.
Does it include any permanent dredger or other expensive material which could not easily be re-purchased?
The dredgers are adapted to special conditions only.
Indeed, were that the case, no dredger would count as a vessel, whereas in fact every dredger counts as a vessel.
