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"Mr President, Commissioner, representatives of the Council, a condition of success for the
Europe plan is that there should be healthy levels of competition in the telecommunications markets. We now have before us a large package of reforms which it is vitally important that we adopt and implement swiftly in order to further the process of freeing up markets. It is good that Mr van Velzen’s excellent report gives weight to the importance of common competition legislation to promote competition in the telecommunications sector. It will be important in applying common competition legislation, however, that the legal provisions relating to a dominant market position are interpreted in a way that does not discriminate against operators in smaller markets.
Parliament has reservations about licence auctions for third generation wireless communications. I am also worried, for my own part, about how licence fees will affect the development of markets. As spectrum distribution will be the responsibility of Member States, however, we in Parliament have to accept that competition strategies in the different countries will vary. Only time will show what the most rational solution will be. It is also important that the trend should be towards a technologically more neutral operational environment, and that the sector-oriented approach be abandoned as far as possible.
The danger of too much regulation must also be taken into account in good time. I support the ‘soft law’ approach in the creation of the new operational environment, in a way, however, that the legislator is given ample opportunity to make his or her position known to the Commission and the Council, before recommendations are made concerning the matter or other decisions taken revising the operational environment. I would like to ask the Commissioner how the Commission intends to promote this ‘co-regulation’ approach. How will it be possible for Parliament to exert sufficient influence?
I would still like to stress that competition should be promoted openly and transparently, to a degree that is adequate, and not through price policy regulation. Tariffs must be open, consumers must be able to acquire information regarding the cost of calls easily, and pricing mechanisms must safeguard the ability people have to compare prices."@en1
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