Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-13-Speech-1-075"
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"Mr President, I am speaking here on behalf of my colleague, Mr Bradbourn, who was the rapporteur for our committee, though I was very much involved in drawing up the opinion. I should like to say first of all to Mrs Torres Marques that she has produced an extremely comprehensive report with a lot of good ideas in it. I would say to Mr Liikanen, whom I am pleased to see here in a different guise from when we normally engage in debate, that I read his proposal with great interest.
I want to emphasise that the line taken by my committee in our opinion is that we are looking for areas where the Commission can add value. We are not looking for new Treaty competences. We are not looking for new layers of bureaucracy in an industry which, as Mrs Torres Marques has rightly pointed out, is characterised by the very large number of small- and medium- and owner-operated businesses. The last thing we want is lots of bureaucratic information collection and even ideas like new observatories.
The Commission has a role in adding value, in promoting ideas about benchmarking and sharing information about standards, but industry players and local authorities must be engaged in that process. I emphasise that they have to add value to the process. Mr Liikanen's portfolio is a very broad one already. I do not want to see him diverting a lot of resources into something that is primarily a competence of Member States and should remain so.
In that connection, I do not want to see us use the ideas about tourism – and certainly, as Mrs Torres Marques has said, it employs a lot of people – to call for centralising measures, for new tax centralising measures or for new measures that might engage regions directly instead of Member States. We should clearly be discussing tourism issues but we should be quite clear about where the responsibility lies. We should say to the Commission: add value, look for solutions but do not add to your Treaty competences."@en1
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