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"Mr President, thank you, Mrs Handzlik, for presenting this report, which adds up to a really good piece of work. Many thanks, too, for the frankness you have shown in cooperating with the other groups. That, I think, is what our cooperation here in this House should be like.
I know that I will be disappointing Mrs Kallenbach when I say that our group will not be able to support her amendment. As she said, we are fundamentally very much in favour of a services directive being drafted, and of the services market being opened up; we do not, however, want it to happen any old how, but in a truly socially acceptable manner.
We are able to support Mrs Handzlik’s report, which contains some very important statements. In paragraph 5, for example, it is stated that the new Member States have implemented the mutual recognition principle in their legislation. It is also stated that they have adopted the highest standards as guidelines to achieving harmonisation, which is a crucial objective of the internal market. These things are what matter to the public in the European Union, and I think that is what we have to achieve.
The Committee came to an agreement that there would be no place in this report for the provisions to be worked out for the services directive, and that we would, instead, discuss these issues in the report on that directive, which is where they belong. We have kept to that agreement, as has Mrs Handzlik, and I think that is only right and proper.
We Social Democrats have our own particular reason for endorsing this report, for, in paragraph 14, we agreed that, desirable though a market in services is, we do also take the view that efforts to that end must not prejudice social cohesion in the EU, and that consumers must enjoy a high level of protection. Such is the task we in this House have set ourselves where the services directive is concerned, and we will continue to work at it in future.
For that reason, too, I congratulate Mrs Handzlik, and I congratulate this our Parliament on having produced this report on the current state of play in the new Member States, and on the imminent report on consumer protection. At the same time, though, I do hope that this is the last time that we shall do so. I hope that future reports will take as their subject the whole European Union, making no distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’, but depicting it as a whole."@en1
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