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lpv:speaker	lp:Gérard Caudron2
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lpv:translated text	". I would first of all like to remind you of the background to this report. To begin with it was allocated to the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, like other reports on the telecoms package. At that time I was appointed rapporteur. Then the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market declared that it was the responsible committee and the report was handed over to Malcolm Harbour, a British Member of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. I remained the draftsman of the opinion, but the opinion I expressed had little influence in the discussions! This is a terrible shame, especially when the issue is the protection of universal service in such an important sector which is undergoing such important changes. The report adopted by the Committee on Legal Affairs last November makes astonishing reading. The measures relating to universal service have been reduced to a disappointing level and the report focuses mainly on consumer protection. As I said in my report of the opinion, if universal service includes, within the definition of its component services, the same kind of criteria that are usually used to assess services provided for consumers (affordable prices, availability, delivery timetables and quality), its raison d’être has different types of objectives if we look at the issue for the point of view of regional policy, social policy (preventing the poorest people from being excluded) or public safety policy. I would like to stress the importance for democracy of the ability to access new communication networks. New technologies make it possible for people to speak out, to participate in democratic debate and to influence decisions. Technology can also be used to bring government closer to the people. Local democracy can benefit greatly from the interactive aspect of online local public services. Public services can be given a new lease of life through these new technologies, if the means are made available to them, and of course if they have the will to do so. Lastly, Internet access is essential to the creation of a knowledge-based information society. The committee’s proposal needs to be improved in order to meet these challenges. This is what I attempted to do in my amendments, all which were rejected by Mr Harbour. Today we have voted on a report that proposes some interesting changes concerning the protection of consumers, particularly disabled consumers, and the ‘must carry’ principle, but which, regrettably, cannot claim to provide universal service in this sector!"@en1

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