Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-10-Speech-1-117"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Market access to port services2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030310.5.1-117"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-10-Speech-1-1182
lpv:speaker	lp:Miet Smet2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams (2001-10-01--2004-07-19)3 member; Quaestors (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; European Parliament (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I naturally feel that Mr Dhaene’s appeal to some socially aware colleagues in the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats was addressed to me personally, as I am one of them. I would like to deal with just one point, namely that of compulsory licensing. As the directive now says, it is being left up to the Member States to decide whether or not to issue a licence. So they can choose for themselves. In other words, the Member States and the port authorities are free to decide whether to operate an obligatory system of this kind or not. At the same time, however, we are creating – and I do not understand this, Commissioner – an additional competition-distorting element in this directive itself. What will happen is that one port will comply with the compulsory licensing rules and may impose strict conditions in terms of workers’ qualifications, social conditions, safety, the economic development of the port and so on, and another port will not do so, which will ultimately distort mutual competition between the ports. It is therefore being left up to the Member States to decide whether or not to do this. My amendment, and an amendment that was also tabled by other people, concerning the introduction of compulsory licensing was declared inadmissible in the parliamentary committee on the basis of Rule 80 of the Rules of Procedure. I have now been told that the President of this Parliament may now declare these amendments admissible after all on account of a number of new elements, which Mr Bouwman has referred to. If this is the case then I will vote in favour. I support compulsory licensing because I am in favour of the same competitive conditions existing in all ports."@en1

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