Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-02-Speech-2-274"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:GALILEO2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011002.11.2-274"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-02-Speech-2-2752
lpv:speaker	lp:Ewa Hedkvist Petersen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2001-04-05--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3,3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, I want to begin by thanking the rapporteur, Mrs Langenhagen, for her work on the report. I am taking the floor today because I feel we need technical systems that offer environmental benefits. Technical progress is ever more rapid. Personal computers and mobile telephones have drastically altered our working lives and our everyday life. We have also seen how technology is changing all the time and creating new aids and how companies are forever developing new products to be used within different areas of society. A European satellite navigation system can, in fact, mean major opportunities for developing the transport sector, especially when it comes to combined transport, dovetailing different types of transport. For aviation and shipping, too, as well as for transport by road and rail, the new technology can be used to make transport more efficient and environmentally friendly. I do agree with the rapporteur that GALILEO will enable Europe to be involved in developing a new technology-based industry and to be in the vanguard of this. There is a space industry in various parts of Europe today, for example in northernmost Sweden, and I think it important that we should use existing infrastructure to keep down the future costs of this project. Major technical breakthroughs have more often than not taken place following development using research supported by the public sector, often with a view to the research’s being used for military purposes. The money and resources needed for developing completely new technologies often do not exist in private companies. This particularly applies to the GALILEO project which is based upon joint financing by the EU countries but to which the private sector too has to contribute. What is unique about GALILEO, unlike the GPS system, is that it is being developed for civil rather than military purposes. I consider this to be an absolute prerequisite for the European Parliament’s supporting the project."@en1

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