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"Mr President, tonight British Members from three different political parties and other colleagues are going to be in agreement, which is a rare occurrence.
I am not a member of the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, but I particularly want to commend Mr Cappato and colleagues here tonight for their courageous stand in amending the Commission's original proposal. I was sorry that we did not uphold all of Mr Cappato's report last time. This compromise has all the hallmarks of a compromise. In other words it is not terribly satisfactory but at least it is better than the original proposal from the Commission, and the amendment by the Socialist Group which I hope will not be supported tomorrow.
We have to consider this essentially a transitional piece of work. I think everyone here tonight is working on legislation in the electronic age. I have worked on the e-commerce directive, the copyright directive and we are working on the electronic communications bills. What is quite clear is the immense pace and change of technology and the reconstruction of markets that is going on all the time. As a number of colleagues have said tonight, the world of electronic communications is offering immense benefits to the citizens, whether it is in their own personal access to charities or political parties or in the marketplace. What some colleagues want to do, is to shut that down. Clearly we cannot do that because it operates on a global level. That is where the spam is coming from. So we have promised something to our citizens we cannot deliver.
Clearly we have to work towards a global solution that will be driven by technology. We want a global format that will allow people to tag their e-mail messages by sender and by subject. We can have the technology to give people complete control. If we adopt this proposal and pass this amendment, we will be walking away from the opportunity to create the right environment so that people can really benefit from the immense power of the new communications world."@en1
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