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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Monti, on the subject of the report concerning the scoreboard, I wish, on behalf of the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, to say that we are not satisfied with the outcome of the vote in the committee and have therefore, together with the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, tabled a number of amendments. On condition that these amendments are adopted, we shall vote in favour of the report. I would also thank the Commission for the work done on the scoreboard, which is a very useful tool for achieving the objective of a general reduction in state aid.
I welcome the report on the Commission’s 31st report on competition policy. I am especially pleased with the support given by the committee to my proposal that consideration should be given to setting up a competition court, Article 225 A of the Treaty of Nice having paved the way for such a possibility. A competition court would increase the legal protection of European enterprises. A competition court would have to operate as a counterweight to, and supervisor of, the Commission’s experts on issues relating to competition policy. It would ensure that the Commission was no longer viewed as the body that both investigates and judges enterprises. It would make for greater transparency of the enterprises concerned. I absolutely do not want to see a weakening of competition policy in general. On the contrary. Nor do I want to see the Competition Directorate-General’s role in competition policy weakened. I want to support Commissioner Monti and all the other forces for good in their view that, in the future too, competition policy should remain precisely that, with no interference from other policy areas, such as industrial policy. I am delighted that Mr Monti is well disposed towards a European competition court.
I would also take the liberty of looking forward and commenting on the Commission’s motion for a resolution for reforming EU competition law. Throughout the reform process, the ELDR Group has supported the Commission in stating that reform is necessary. At the same time, we have maintained that this must not lead to a renationalisation of competition policy. The Commission has assured us that this will not happen and has referred to a network’s being set up, consisting of the Competition Directorate-General and the national competition authorities. I am confident that this network would be effective. At the same time, I would, however, put forward a proposal that I hope the Commission will consider. It is about creating a special unit or task force in the Competition Directorate-General whose task it will be to ensure, and monitor the fact, that the competition rules are applied equally in all the Member States. This is a large and important task that will become still greater with the forthcoming enlargement. I shall go into this in more detail in a letter to the Commissioner."@en1
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