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Mr President, I too, speaking on behalf of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, would like to extend particularly warm thanks to the rapporteur, Mrs Bresso, for the really very good work that she has done, as also for the persistence with which she has approached it. The fact is that she, along with everyone else concerned, has helped to make it possible for us, today – or, rather, at tomorrow’s vote – to draw a line under the legislation in this area.
I believe that these 19 amendments, all of which my group will be voting to support, have enabled us to achieve a good compromise, one to which we can consent with a clear conscience and with confidence. This is, I have to say, a compromise, and we Social Democrats would have been quite happy to go further in some respects, although we did of course have to make sacrifices to the majorities in this House, and that is what we did, particularly where more vulnerable consumers – by which we meant children in particular – were concerned; had things gone our way, we would have afforded them even more protection.
We would have preferred it if there had been no possibility whatever of direct marketing to or for children being permitted, thus outlawing unfair business practices in this area from the word go. Unfortunately, though, that has not been possible; that is something we have to live with. Perhaps we will be able to achieve this through further amending legislation at a later date.
We Social Democrats can, however, be very satisfied with the way in which we – with evidently large majorities in both the Council and this House – have managed to dispatch the planned provisions relating to the country of origin principle. This is an area in which real harmonisation is happening – rightly, I think, for we have to ensure that the legislation rests on firm foundations. That we have done in this area, and the decision we will take tomorrow will surely be the right one, pointing the way into the future.
Once again, then, many thanks to Mrs Bresso for a job well done; I think we have now done something very fine for the protection of consumers and the public, something that enables us to face the world out there with our heads held high."@en1
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