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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, competition policy is the motor that drives the strategy for growth and employment. It is clear, then, that the European Parliament advocates enhanced consultation, because we want as much competition as possible and – for social and environmental reasons and for the sake of fairness and ethical values – only as much regulation as is absolutely necessary.
That means that the drawing of every boundary is a political issue. It is the competition policy that drives the internal market, and that is why there is a connection between the implementation of the four freedoms using the competition policy or because of it, and the reinforcement – both external and internal – of the single market. I get the feeling that we are still treating competition policy as being on three levels: competition policy within the Member States, competition policy between the Member States, and the competition policy of the European Union in a globalised world, and that that is the reason why there is so much legal uncertainty. The Altmark ruling may well have laid down clear test criteria, but there have been plenty of instances in which the Commission has interpreted them in different ways. There is, on the one hand, the debate about whether investigation of dominant position should refer to the national market on one occasion and to the European market on another. There is no clear distinction drawn between what is part of competition policy and what is part of services of general interest. Now the chapter has been removed from the report altogether. As I see it, competition policy also involves ensuring that directives, once adopted by us, are implemented uniformly. Inconsistent transposition of directives results in distortion of competition and is one of the causes of the resurgent protectionism with which we have to contend vigorously.
We therefore urge the creation of a single European area for both research and energy, while also advocating codecision in fiscal policy matters, where the very minimum that is required is a single tax base for businesses."@en1
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