Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-03-Speech-2-298"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sales promotions in the internal market (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020903.10.2-298"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-03-Speech-2-2992
lpv:speaker	lp:José María Gil-robles Gil-delgado2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-02-28--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by warmly congratulating the rapporteur on his report. The text approved by the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market is the result of skill and a spirit of dialogue, which has allowed broadly accepted compromises to be reached. The result is a text which has been rebalanced in order to increase consumer protection, especially with regard to the information they are to be provided with, complaint procedures and the situation of minors, amongst others. Also excluded are practices which are not of a commercial promotional nature, such as the operation of games of chance in the apparent form of sales promotion operations or sales at a loss or below cost. I repeat that the latter is not a genuinely promotional practice, since its aim is not so much to protect the consumer as to eliminate market competitors, which at the end of the day benefits neither consumers, competition nor the good operation of the market. For this reason, it is considered an illegal practice in the majority – not in the minority – of Member States. Furthermore, several of them – since the competition rules are insufficient – have had to reintroduce these provisions. And this, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, must be taken into account when the Commission produces its article 7 report and when we try – as we are trying – to implement the common market. Because the common market cannot be a means for extending practices which the majority of Member States consider to be prejudicial, for good reasons. The impact of a liberalisation cannot be measured in purely economic terms, but we have to take account of all the factors that affect the common good, and consumer protection is something which cannot simply be left to the predatory practices of certain large companies. We therefore feel that the solution adopted is appropriate and consequently the enormous majority of our Group – which is not ultra-liberal but rather is in favour of a social market economy – is going to support it."@en1

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