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"Mr President, Mr Hökmark’s report and the debate in Committee got to the heart of the matter; the report, in particular, is an excellent one. The Commissioner’s contribution also gave great cause for hope.
The reform of policy on State aid is enormously important to people at the local level, where the towns, boroughs and regions are the main sources of public investments. As has already been said, their municipal enterprises play an important part in guaranteeing the provision of services of general interest, and so it is important that the Commission should – as it has already agreed to do – announce how it proposes to implement the criteria set out in the ECJ’s ruling in the Altmark case. If legal disputes are to be avoided, those who will have to apply these criteria must have a clear idea of what the Commission’s policy is. The more concrete the Altmark criteria are, the more difficult they are to implement, and the individual public offices cannot be expected to get to grips with the fundamental principle and determine for themselves whether or not aid has been granted on the basis of the avoidance of overcompensation using market compensations; to do so would involve them in a quite unjustifiable amount of bureaucracy. The local offices could, though, be enabled to do that if – as has indeed already been announced – they had access to workable guidelines with which, for example, they could determine which market was relevant. I am glad that the Committee, under Mr Hökmark’s guidance, has turned its attention to the non-inclusion of public SMEs in the definition of SMEs, and I also welcome the conclusion it has come to regarding that.
Public undertakings meet the public’s needs where they are, and the public regard them as their own property. By supporting communal public undertakings in their work rather than making it more difficult, the EU will go up even further in the public’s estimation, and so I would encourage the House to continue pressing for the definition of SME to include communal public undertakings."@en1
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