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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I fear that I can scarcely agree with Mr Queiró. I should love to do all the things you suggest, but unfortunately they do not fall within the competence of the European Commission. As you know, the Constitution, in which the European Union is given the power to legislate on tourism, has not entered into force. And all the fine proposals you have made may well be desirable, but they cannot be implemented since the Commission is not empowered to do so.
I said that at the time, and what the Commission has done instead is something far more difficult, namely to persuade the Member States, in the very testing circumstances of the present time, that they should nevertheless set about developing a coordinated European policy on tourism. That cannot be achieved in the short term because, as I have said, we have no competence to regulate these matters.
We presented this communication in March of this year, it has been discussed on several occasions with the ministers responsible for tourism in the Member States and has been well received by them, and it will provide numerous new opportunities, but I am not in a position to forecast when particular measures can actually be taken. That, sadly, is just the way things are.
I propose that we continue to discuss this subject in depth, but in particular that we do our best to ensure that the European Constitution enters into force. Then we shall have an entirely new range of opportunities for action in this field, which – and here I agree with you wholeheartedly – is extremely important to the economic future of Europe.
I am firmly convinced that tourism offers enormous potential for the economic development of Europe. If there is any area in which we can expect global economic development and our own population trends to generate vigorous growth, that area is certainly tourism. The Commission will endeavour to encourage the Member States and the relevant business sectors to take coordinated action in order to exploit this potential to the full."@en1
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