Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-10-Speech-1-121"

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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	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030310.5.1-121"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-10-Speech-1-1222
lpv:speaker	lp:Lisbeth Grönfeldt Bergman2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (2000-04-16--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (2000-04-16--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Jarzembowski, European industry needs efficient maritime transport. That is something which the proposal for a directive on market access to port services, in the form in which it appears in the Council common position, is well placed to promote. If adopted, quite a few of the changes now proposed by the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism at second reading, will, unfortunately, crucially undermine the directive’s ability to contribute to just such more efficient maritime transport. That particularly applies to the amendment to Article 4.9 whereby the provision that would give industry the option of self-handling using land-based personnel would disappear from the directive. If this amendment were adopted, owners of consignments would, in the future too, be prevented from loading vessels using their own skilled and authorised personnel and their own resources. If this and other unnecessary, and unnecessarily detailed, amendments were to be adopted, antiquated port structures would unfortunately persist, to the detriment of maritime transport’s competitiveness. We Swedish Moderates believe, moreover, that all port services, including pilotage services, should fall within the directive, for this could be a positive development for European trade, for an efficient, safe and competitive shipping industry and for better options in terms of transferring cargoes from road to water. Many people want to achieve this, but extremely few are working towards doing so. One step in the right direction would be to reject all the amendments that limit competition and to support those which really are aimed at promoting it. That is something I hope Parliament will do."@en1

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