Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-12-Speech-3-104"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030312.2.3-104"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-12-Speech-3-1052
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". The explanation that Commissioner Lamy gave on Monday 10 March at the beginning of the debate on the commitment of the EU to the GATS negotiations sounded reassuring. The European socio-economic model must be retained, government monopolies remain possible, it is not a question of compulsory privatisation or liberalisation and all the commitments that the EU enters into are temporary, so that they do not have a permanent influence on internal political considerations. The reason for regulating such matters in the World Trade Organisation context is that bilateral contracts outside this organisation lead to more arbitrariness, uncontrollability and circumstances beyond one’s control. In spite of this explanation the fear being articulated by the US and by the developing world is that the position of the EU is quite a different one. The EU is said to want to give companies from its own Member States access to activities such as water distribution and possibly even water collection that within the EU are still predominantly in the hands of publicly owned enterprises. The availability of drinking water for the poor is said to be under threat. Can we now speak of the EU being much tougher on the outside world than on its own Member States and inhabitants? The concluding response from Mr Lamy sounded less reassuring than his beginning. For me this is a reason for putting supplementary questions to the European Commission shortly. If all the amendments from the Left are rejected, I will vote against. *"@en1

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