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"Mr President, I would first like to express my thanks to the rapporteur and my colleagues Messrs Harbour and Beysen who, in the responsible committee, have done an excellent job of including and taking into account the views expressed by the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy on this matter.
I am very glad that the European Parliament is now about to take a decision on supporting the Commission’s proposed strategy for creating an internal market for services. The need for this is enormous – for economic growth, for the advancement of companies, for employment and for consumers. An internal market for services has for a long time been a missing element in a European growth policy, a policy which must also be supplemented by measures to speed up the liberalisation process in sectors such as postal services, electricity and energy – something which cannot be said too often.
The Commission’s overall course of action is good. We cannot continue with sectoral regulation of services, something which has so far proved to hinder, rather than facilitate, the creation of an internal market. Ninety-nine per cent of European companies are small and medium-sized. These employ 66 per cent of workers and generate 55 per cent of turnover. Bearing in mind the significance of these companies for the European economy, it is necessary for them to be able to benefit fully from the internal market for services – a market which quite simply cannot function well without them. It is also important that the candidate countries should be involved as soon as possible. What is known as the enlarged internal market for services must also be well prepared.
Finally, in order for this work to be a success, the Commission must not be left alone.
have a major responsibility here in Parliament, but the Member States too have a great responsibility to involve themselves in the process and to work at political, legislative and administrative levels to remove obstacles to the exchange of services. Without political will at all levels, the goal cannot be achieved."@en1
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