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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by congratulating the rapporteur, Mr Berenguer Fuster, and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on the quality of the report. Given the employment situation in the Community, every aspect of employment represents, and must represent, an essential political priority. I welcome Parliament’s comments on this proposal, which seeks to reduce the administrative burdens on national authorities which employ State aid measures to respond to the challenge represented by employment. I am all the more pleased to note the generally very favourable tone of the report.
As you are aware and as the rapporteur has just pointed out, the proposal concerns a fourth exemption regulation in the field of State aid, which follows on from the exemption regulations already in force in the areas of training, aid to small and medium-sized enterprises and
aid.
The main aim behind all these regulations is to reduce the administrative burdens upon national authorities, exempting them from the obligation to notify measures which are clearly compatible with the internal market. The proposal concerns the relationship between two essential Community objectives: employment and competition. The need to find the right balance between these two objectives
is clear – and let it be understood that in saying this I am in no way trying to suggest that competition and employment are two objectives which are incompatible. On the contrary, we are convinced that, worldwide, sustaining a dynamic market economy in which the forces of competition are free to express themselves will contribute greatly to increasing employment levels.
There are, of course, countless measures that the Member States can and, indeed, do take to promote employment. Many of these do not constitute State aid, particularly when they are not selective but cover the entire economic activity of a Member State. The draft regulation does not relate to these measures.
It must also be pointed out that, in many cases, State aid with different primary objectives also has the implicit objective of promoting employment. This is the case of regional investment aid, for example, and aid to certain sectors. The regulation before us only concerns aid which is formally and explicitly linked to the achievement of employment objectives.
The text does more than just streamline the administrative requirements: it clarifies the fundamental rules which apply to employment aid too."@en1
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