Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-04-Speech-4-111"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-12-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031204.6.4-111"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-12-04-Speech-4-1122
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". EU rules prescribe the goods and services on which the Member States may impose high rates of VAT and those that, by way of derogation, may fall within the reduced rate. This exception already applied to food and clothes, but in 1999, labour-intensive services were also, on an experimental basis, brought under the umbrella of reduced rates of VAT. This has had a beneficial impact on employment. According to a recent hearing here in Parliament, the deployment of this instrument has created an additional 250 000 jobs throughout the European Union. There are also other positive effects. If we keep the bicycle repairman affordable, this will promote cycling. It is astonishing that the Commission should now wish to put a stop to this. The Commission supports its decision by deficient and incomplete enquiries and has insufficient evidence to substantiate that the experiment has led to unsatisfactory results. If the experiment is discontinued, countless jobs will disappear in Europe, 8 500 of them in the Netherlands. My party, the Socialist Party in the Netherlands, sees taxes as a useful instrument to achieve sound social security and provide public services, but it denounces this way of enforcing increases in them. We want to maintain the reduced rates of VAT on hairdressers, bicycle repairmen and cobblers. I call for enforcing the Member States' right to keep the rates of VAT on labour-intensive services low if this is underpinned by sound arguments from a social and employment point of view."@en1

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