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"Mr President, I want to congratulate the rapporteur on an exceptional piece of work. She has managed to piece together a sustainable compromise against all the odds. At present, the stock exchanges within the EU have a near monopoly on dealing in securities, especially in certain national markets. Now, we are obtaining competition and freedom of choice and, Mr Katiforis, sound protection of investors.
I want briefly to comment on the two sensitive articles, namely Articles 18 and 25. Where Article 18 is concerned, we think it important that the suitability test be reserved for services where advice is given and not, for example, Internet-based dealing in securities. These clients have consciously chosen a brokerage service in which they will have no need to pay for professional advice. That would just be more expensive. We shall therefore vote in favour of the committee’s Amendments Nos 53, 54 and 55.
The most discussed article in the proposal is Article 25, which deals with the internalisation of trade and the publication of price information prior to transactions that take place outside the regulated markets or MTF platform. We view this as rather risky. It would reduce liquidity on the market and increase costs. There has not been sufficient political support for the removal of this article, but we think that the committee’s Amendments Nos 33, 86, 87, 88 and 89 should remove the negative effects that the proposed rules on the publication of prices would have on the market.
Finally, I should like to ask why we are debating as important a proposal as this so late in the evening."@en1
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