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". – Motor vehicles are indeed, as Mrs Caullery says, complex and sophisticated. That is one of the reasons why we decided to introduce sector specific rules rather than fall back on the general regulatory framework for vertical restrictions.
I would stress the following, however.
The proposal in our view improves and does not undermine the safe and reliable servicing of cars. It does not make it more difficult for car manufacturers to fulfil their obligations. The repairer to whom a dealer may subcontract the service if he or she so wishes must be entrusted by the manufacturer with the task of providing the services which dealers provide today. To put it bluntly, the only difference between an official dealer who provides after-sales services today and an official repairer in the proposed regime tomorrow is that the latter may not have a showroom from which to sell cars. Technical expertise, training, tooling, and service standards will remain those decided by the manufacturer and applied throughout its network. In these circumstances manufacturers are indeed in a position to comply with their obligations.
Mr Naranjo Escobar asked whether there will be undesired consequences and whether it would not be advisable to have a transitional period while keeping the location clause for the time being. The time frame is already sufficiently structured because, after consultation, the final Commission regulation will be adopted before the summer of this year. It will probably contain a clause saying that it will be fully effective from October 2003 and we have taken into account also the situation of the existing dealers by introducing in the draft regulation an explicit notice for the termination of the contract. At any rate it is clear that what we have adopted today is a very deeply thought through and structured draft regulation but there is still to be further consultation and if we see important and persuasive arguments coming up in the consultation of course we will take them very seriously into account.
In reply to Mr Berenguer Fuster, the Commission allows selective systems for many products in line with the policy it applies: the draft regulation neither imposes a particular distribution format nor prescribes in detail how agreements should be drafted. It recognises that other vertical restraints agreed between the parties may trigger economic efficiencies which lead to optimal investment levels by manufacturers, official networks and independent repairers.
If I can conclude with a slightly more general point, with this proposal we do two things. On the one hand we bring the forces of competition more vigorously into play. There is an injection of additional competition. On the other hand we free up the choice of modalities by means of fewer rigidities and more flexibility."@en1
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