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"Madam President, I wish to thank both my colleagues for their very creditable work in this area. I shall now just concentrate on the report by Mr Clegg. The topic he deals with is now extremely important because the Commission is for example calling for the swift implementation of the new European regulatory framework in all Member States. Mr Clegg quite rightly criticises Member States which, despite pressure from the Commission and the sector, have not done enough to adopt the new legislative package as part of their own legal system. If Europe wishes to create a genuine Internal Market for the telecommunications sector as well, it is particularly important that we ensure that harmonised legislation is implemented. We must keep to what we have decided.
With circumstances as they are it is dangerous to start proposing measures to remedy the market situation before the telecommunications package has even been implemented. Given that eight Member States have not made the package part of their own legislation, it is nothing less than a scandal.
Point 34 in Mr Clegg’s report is not the correct way to proceed in the situation as it is now, since in my view it conflicts with the Universal Service Directive. Can we have the operators pay for these reforms in the infrastructure? As a list of obligations and remedying actions has just been launched on the market it is sheer madness to confuse the issue by adding new public service obligations or imprecise notions regarding a monopoly, which are oddly combined with perhaps some quite interesting business concept, which is to say the European service number idea.
The whole information and communications technology sector has to be regulated until the markets are fully competitive. That is only fair for everyone. Let, then, the new service concepts come about in a commercially competitive market where business developers skilled in their field will certainly do their work well. That is European innovation. Let us also do our work: let us enact laws that last."@en1
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