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". – Mr President, as Mrs Read has said, the MODINIS programme plays a central role in the implementation of the eEurope 2005 Action Plan. The information society policies in the EU have three pillars. The first pillar is the regulatory framework. This Parliament has contributed to the adoption of this regulatory framework which entered into force last summer.
The objective of this framework is to create a pro-competitive marketplace so that different technological platforms will compete with and complement each other in Europe, offering high-quality services at an affordable price to everybody. That is the first pillar.
The second pillar is then the IST programme – the Information Society Technology programme, whose task is to guarantee that we will have state-of-the-art technologies and applications available in Europe. That is the very important second pillar.
The third pillar is the one which binds these two together. That is the eEurope 2005 Action Plan by which we try to disseminate best practice throughout Europe. This year we have had very successful efforts, especially in the field of e-government and e-health, with two ministerial conferences, in which Members of the European Parliament participated. Our Member States and regions are moving from a pure technology focus to solutions, looking at how technology can facilitate higher-quality public services, higher productivity and better tailor-made services.
MODINIS is the financial instrument to monitor, benchmark and disseminate these best practices. It will be important to assess whether national or European initiatives, taking place in the framework of the eEurope Action Plan, are producing the expected results.
The role of MODINIS will also be to finance preparatory actions in the area of network security, such as awareness-raising actions of Members States and analysis of security risks. We – all three institutions – are working on the proposed regulation setting up a European Network and Information Security Agency, and we will have the opportunity to come back to this issue in one of the next part-sessions.
Once again, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Read, and the European Parliament for its support on this topic, as is illustrated in the budgetary amendment to the proposal.
I can confirm that the Commission can accept the amendment. Consequently, the whole legislative process could be speeded up by facilitating a second reading agreement. This would further allow the prompt implementation of the MODINIS programme.
I look forward to continued cooperation on the implementation of this programme, as has been the case in the past."@en1
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