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"Mr President, Mrs Berger, I think that your work is outstanding and I can only urge you to pursue it. I hope that Parliament will have the wisdom to stay close to and, to all intents and purposes, in line with the Council’s position. I feel that it is a sensible position and that we need it urgently. I do not share Mr Harbour’s point of view that conciliation would be the best path to take.
Every day, we see further progress in the development of distance financial services, and we see the positive and negative effects of this in terms of cost to
the economy but also the risks to which consumers are exposed as a result. From this point of view, the common position adopted by the Council is sensible; I feel that it takes Parliament’s position into ample account and maintains a satisfactory balance in dealing with the principle of the country of origin, which enhances consumer protection.
The crucial point is clearly Article 3(4). I feel that, if Parliament were to upset the balance achieved by the Council, we would be doing more harm than good, if only because we would be delaying the potential entry into force of this urgently needed directive. The solution found concerns the potential conflict between pre-contractual information and the information contained in the contract, specifying that the pre-contractual information must comply with the provisions of the contract itself. This is a sensible requirement and we support it.
This article does not cover all pre-contractual information: it relates purely to the information regarding contractual obligations and its sole purpose is to ensure conformity between the two sets of information. Once again, this is a sensible step which we fully support.
Lastly, I believe that the Commission itself has fully acknowledged that the agreement achieved by the Council is compatible with the previous texts on
commerce. We support the Commission’s point of view, of course, and we trust that Parliament’s wisdom will prevail."@en1
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