03/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - Port state control. MEPs have approved the amendment to the 2009/16/EC directive on port state control, in order to comply with the Marine Labour Convention (MLC) adopted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). They adopted the report by Brian Simpson (S&D, United Kingdom) by 679 votes to 20, with 13 abstentions. Parliament was keen to ensure that existing European standards were not watered down and that the confidential complaints procedure was...