NGO Shipbreaking Platform...condemned today’s vote by the European Parliament against the creation of what would have been the first-ever ship recycling fund, a market-based incentive aimed at financing cleaner and safer ship recycling worldwide...Regrettably, Fjellner’s amendment postpones the decision-making to the end of 2015 by calling on the European Commission to “submit a legislative proposal“...Nevertheless, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform can celebrate that the MEPs have voted in favour of more stringent rules that will effectively ban beaching of EU-flagged ships. [B]eaching...[which] is at the source of extreme pollution and human rights and labour rights violations in developing countries, is a thing of the past. However, a European ban on beaching without a funding mechanism to prevent reflagging of ships out of the EU at end-of-life, remains far too weak. It is expected that few ships will fall under the direct scope of the proposed regulation at end-of-life.