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"The draft directive on market access to port services, which was the subject of the Jarzembowski report, was designed to provide a transparent legal framework governing commercial services provided to users of seaports in exchange for payment and to open these services to competition.
This was an excellent aim, and it should serve to make French ports more competitive.
Nevertheless, the draft took very scant account of the safety and control matters, which are normally the preserve of the public authorities. In particular, pilotage services should not have been included within the scope of the planned directive.
The final version of the text as it emerged from the Conciliation Committee brought some improvements in this respect, in that the competent authorities could now limit the provision of pilotage services to a single provider for safety reasons, and the limitation of the period of authorisation was abandoned. Lastly, the Member States were now free to decide whether or not to set a compulsory limit on the number of authorisations to provide port services.
Even with these amendments, however, the proposed directive remained unsatisfactory. I personally abstained, and the draft was rejected by a narrow majority."@en1
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