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"This has been a difficult and complex task and the three rapporteurs have certainly done a very good job in the circumstances.
We have had difficulty in reconciling the texts. We have not made the Commission’s task easier. Between us, we have overcomplicated these texts and it is going to have a job to sort these out before the second reading. It is a lesson for us in the future that, as politicians and parliamentarians, we should focus on simplification and minimum regulation. I was interested that my colleague, Mrs Gill – unfortunately she is no longer here – made the point of support for market development to minimise regulation.
We have not done that with the amendments that we have made. The problem with the work that we have done so far is that we have got bogged down in today’s thinking. We are actually finding excuses for regulating. We have spent an enormous amount of time on significant market power and deciding how to regulate it, instead of actually thinking about the way forward. I am pleased a number of colleagues, including Mr Glante, made that point as well. That is something that we need to reflect on between now and the second reading.
I am particularly concerned about the fact that we are not thinking about the way the market is going to reconstruct. We should look at the change in sentiment in the market that has taken place over the time that we have been reviewing these texts and think about the mobile market which is still enormously dynamic, has shown terrific rates of growth, is introducing new products all the time, and is within sight of getting mobile communications to two-thirds of the European population.
We are spending far too much time here thinking about transitory issues of roaming. I know colleagues feel very strongly about it but the market will actually cure those issues. I remain entirely unconvinced that the sort of interventionist approach we have taken here is right.
In conclusion, I remind colleagues that there is one more very important report to come, my report on universal service, and many of the things you have talked about and, indeed, some of the provisions on mobile are actually more appropriate for my report and not for Mr Brunetta’s. I am sure the Commission will remind us of that but I shall resist those sort of temptations when I come back to you in two months time."@en1
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