Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-07-Speech-3-172"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-09-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Basic guidelines for sustainable European tourism2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20050907.19.3-172"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-07-Speech-3-1732
lpv:speaker	lp:Margie Sudre2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2004-09-16--2007-03-13)3 member; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PECH (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-10-14--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like first of all to congratulate Mr Queiró on the excellent work he has done. I am pleased to observe that his report contains the greater part of the recommendations I had addressed to him as draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Regional Development. I do not wish to go back over the difficulties encountered by the tourism sector in Europe and the challenges it has to face, since that has been thoroughly debated in committee, and Mr Queiró presents an altogether clear overview of this issue. Furthermore, I believe that we have all understood the role that tourism can play in terms of growth, job creation and sustainable development. I would like to look to the future by emphasising three points, which I do not believe can be ignored. First, it seems crucial to me that the Commission and the Council should revive the work on the proposal for a directive concerning reduced rates of VAT by also enabling all the Member States to opt for a reduced rate of VAT for costs pertaining to the hotel and catering industries. The wide variety of situations within the European Union itself is leading to unfair competition, and that is no longer acceptable. Secondly, I believe that it is altogether desirable to encourage the development of new types of sustainable tourism such as agritourism, rambling, bicycle touring, horse riding and so on and to remove the obstacles encountered by certain sections of the community that wish to travel but that experience difficulties in doing so owing to the absence of infrastructures and amenities. Mr Queiró and Mr Verheugen have spoken about this. I am referring in particular to elderly people and people with disabilities. Finally, my third point is that particular attention must be paid to regions suffering from natural and structural disadvantages: I am referring to the outermost regions and the island regions. With regard to these regions, we must implement an across-the-board policy, designed to encourage and promote these destinations, the greater part of whose economic activity consists of tourism, and thus encourage the development of an essential transport network servicing these isolated regions. The Commission could also provide for greater coherence between actions carried out to promote tourism and other related Community policies. I would like to conclude by pointing out that tourism still has no legal basis whatsoever in Community legislation, which is a state of affairs that I deplore. Let us hope that the progress contained in the draft Constitution will be resumed very soon indeed."@en1

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