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"Mr Clegg said in his speech that this was a controversial and complicated piece of work and I think therefore we chose well to appoint him as a rapporteur. He has been very unflappable throughout and, on behalf of the House, I would like to record that at the time he was successfully decoupling the local loop, he was also making a very successful coupling of his own, by getting married. I am sure that we all pass on our congratulations to him.
It will not surprise this House to know that, as a representative of the British Conservative Party – and it was the Conservative Government that privatised British Telecom over 17 years ago, probably the first of the large-scale telecom privatisations in Europe – I very much welcome this essential further action to deregulate and open up the market. In pushing this forward it has been very important for the Commission to lay the foundations with the telecoms package that we are now considering and we very much admire their ambition and their zeal to do this.
My only comment, when looking at the slightly loose wording on some of the timing – for example, that notified operators shall from 31 December meet reasonable requests from beneficiaries – is to ask the Commissioner to assure us that he will be very severe in monitoring this, because there is no point in pushing this text through here if we have very slack and loose implementation in the Member States where this also needs to be pushed through.
Can I also say this that this has been an admirable initiative resulting from the Lisbon summit but a lot of other key aspects concerning moving forward in the new economy were mentioned in Lisbon? Who is going to use all this new low-cost deregulated capacity? We want to see the new entrepreneurs, the new Internet companies coming into the market. I remind the Commissioner that one of the other key aspects of Lisbon was the creation of new conditions in the European economy, to get the new investors. Can I encourage him with the new spirit of adventure that we see here – and perhaps that is not a word that we always associate with the Commission – to move forward with zeal and vigour to achieve these other aspects of Lisbon with the same effectiveness."@en1
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