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"Mr President, I am speaking on behalf of my colleague Klaus-Heiner Lehne, who is the shadow rapporteur for our group. It was important for him to attend the meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market that is taking place now. It is unfortunate that those clashes cannot be taken into account in scheduling these debates, because this is a major piece of legislation from our committee.
I wish to thank Mrs Berger for a very comprehensive and thorough piece of work and for being very persistent in presenting her arguments to us. It must be said that our group – and I hope many colleagues will agree with us – has tabled a number of crucial amendments to this directive. We believe they reflect the overall balance of opinion in this House about the importance of maintaining an entirely consistent approach to our work in this absolutely crucial area, and a consistent approach to the work of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market in the areas of electronic commerce and in creating the internal market as a whole.
I suggest that we in this House have been entirely consistent. It is the Commission and the Council that have moved away from the direction that my colleague Mrs Oomen-Ruijten established at first reading. In the e-commerce directive we established the principle of country of origin as being crucial to e-commerce transactions. In our work on distance marketing of financial services, where we robustly supported the opinion of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, we followed that line as well.
The whole project of creating a single market – an internal market for financial services – is one of the most important projects we are working on at the moment in terms of meeting the Lisbon objectives and creating the sort of dynamic economy that we must have across the European Union.
The distance marketing of financial services directive does not just apply to e-commerce but is crucial in terms of moving to a single cross-border market. But what do we find? We find in the proposal from the Council that the 15 Member States will be able to vary requirements on two crucial elements: prior information given to consumers and aspects of the right to withdrawal from contracts. What sort of single market will we create? What sort of signal will we be sending to the Council and to the market outside if we accept a proposal from the Council that allows 15 different sets of conditions to go forward?
I suggest to you – and I hope this House will take forward our recommendations – that when we vote tomorrow we should not accept this compromise. It is not satisfactory. Conciliation is the only way to resolve it, but we must be consistent with the principles of this House. I ask you, on behalf of the group, to support those amendments."@en1
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