Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-14-Speech-2-021"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-01-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030114.1.2-021"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Theodorus J.J. Bouwman2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 chair; EMPL (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would first of all like to thank the rapporteurs. Heavy words indeed: the railway industry drinking in the last chance saloon and ceasing to exist after a certain time. Mr Jarzembowski was also talking about a balanced relationship. We endorse that. We also think that it is absolutely necessary to revitalise the railways, for environmental and other reasons. Interoperability must be changed, safety must be improved, we must set up a Railways Agency, and so on. Let us go back briefly to the core of the matter, however. We actually disagree strongly with regard to the package that Mr Jarzembowski is talking about. We have already had some experience with liberalisation in Europe – in the UK and in the Netherlands as well. I would like to talk about the Dutch example briefly. An article in this morning’s newspaper. Mr Zalm, the Liberal front runner in the elections and a former Dutch minister, is now saying that it was a mistake to split up NS and ProRail. In other words, Railway Directive 91/440/EC, the original separation of infrastructure and operation, is seen as being wrong. The Dutch Minister of Transport, Mr de Boer, also came to this conclusion recently and is asking for an inquiry for this very reason. Back to square one. In other words, we think that liberalisation is an excellent opportunity for goods transport. We think, however, that we will have to take a good look at what this liberalisation of passenger transport is going to deliver, because it is not going well. For this reason we are asking most emphatically for an evaluation proposal and we hope that you will support the amendment. How it is possible that the socialists in the UK, who after all have had the same miserable experiences with liberalisation and the other aspects of privatisation of the railways, can still be in favour of Mr Jarzembowski’s proposals is completely beyond my comprehension."@en1

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