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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Community actions in support of consumer policy 2004-20072
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030923.7.2-268"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-23-Speech-2-2692
lpv:speaker	lp:Astrid Thors2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Svenska folkpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PETI (2002-01-23--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, as a Scandinavian, I do not usually go in for flowery language, but I wish to thank Mr Whitehead and the Commission’s officials for the intensive work done so that we might quickly have this proposal turned into a reality. We have all worked in a spirit of how important it is to strengthen the consumer organisations and reinforce the objectives of consumer work. I therefore want to say thank you to Phillip. The previous speakers have already mentioned the situation in the candidate countries. It is for the new Europe that we are developing the consumer area. In this area, as in many others, I believe there is an old heritage we must combat. I believe that strong consumer organisations are extremely important for enabling people to participate and for giving them the opportunity to exercise influence. For those reasons too, approval is important so that the candidate countries become part of the required network. In Parliament’s amendments, we indicate the importance of genuinely integrating consumer issues into other areas. This has been an issue especially close to my heart. As MEPs, we see how strong the lobbying is in other areas. We must give the consumer the power to study, inform and share best practices. The next issues must be those of mobile telephone conversations, price fixing or the ways in which billing operates in different countries. I therefore think it important for us to highlight this issue. The previous speakers, especially the rapporteur and the Commissioner, spoke of the administrative procedures. The work we have done together – and I want to emphasise the word ‘together’ – may be genuinely groundbreaking in bringing about rapid procedures and quick responses in place of a situation in which applicants are constantly forced to communicate when there is no need to. I hope that the outcome of our work will serve as an example of better procedures. We in the committee proposed that the committee, mentioned in Article 15, should be disbanded. We knew that the Council would not perhaps accept the proposal. I nonetheless hope that the Commissioner, the Commission and all of us are agreed about following up the question of what the committee costs. Does it give value for money? In an enlarged EU, it may be extremely difficult to have large committees of this kind that decide about quite small funds. I hope that the Commission will genuinely look into what the committee mentioned in Article 15 will, in reality, cost."@en1

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