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". – Madam President, I should like to thank the rapporteur for his work on this report. I was a little disappointed to hear the comments of the Commissioner that only minor changes will be accommodated. I was certainly pleased that our committee supported the amendments to maintain as Article 87(3)(a) the status of the statistical effect regions for the entire programming period. I also fully supported the call for the economic development regions to be entitled to the maximum levels of aid intensity with their transitional arrangement for these regions.
In the case of my own region, the BMW region in Ireland, this will help to ensure that there is not a sudden fall in aid levels but rather a gradual change, which will not cause too severe a shock to the system. Furthermore, I commend the proposal to create a safety net, to ensure that no Member State loses more than 50% of its population covered during 2000-2006 because that will allow Member States the flexibility to intervene in certain areas where necessary.
I want briefly to raise another issue in the context of state aid, which is not dealt with by this report but is critical nonetheless. Sometimes state aid rules hinder EU regions from competing with non-Member regions and states for mobile investment projects. The Commissioner referred to Lisbon and, in order to achieve the objectives of more and better jobs, EU regions must be competitive within Europe but equally competitive with the rest of the world. We do not exist in a vacuum and we must look outwards as well as inwards. It should be possible for the EU to devise a system whereby Member States and regions can compete with non-Member States for mobile projects, while at the same time ensuring that Member States do not attempt to outbid each other.
In this context, I believe that we need an assessment of the impact that state aids have in determining if a project can be located in the EU with state aid, or outside the EU without state aid."@en1
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