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"Mr President, Commissioner, this is not the first time we have debated the issue we are debating this evening. We have exchanged views with the European Commission within the framework of the White Paper, and in a resolution adopted by a large majority the European Parliament maintained that our merchant fleet, in the competitive and rapidly developing international environment, needs a clear framework for manoeuvre which must guarantee fair and healthy competition.
Our economy and development plan are based on competition. However, it is up to us to predict the conditions and possible side effects and to create a suitable political framework. That is why we called on small and medium-sized shipping enterprises not to throw away opportunities and not to sacrifice their interests and their business plans to mergers and to the behemoths being created in the industry, especially on regular lines.
We called for care to be taken to ensure that the market was not sent into shock by the European Commission's proposals and for gradual and creative adaptation to the new circumstances. We want our concerns to be taken seriously by the European Commission in all cases.
My thanks to the rapporteur, Mrs Wortmann-Kool, and to the Committee on Transport and Tourism, whose opinion proposes solutions to the matter which I hope will be voted through and accepted by the European Commission. Allow me to reiterate the matters that concern us; they are the transitional period for proper adaptation to the new circumstances and clear guidelines. I agree with the rapporteur that cabotage should not be exempted from free competition.
To close, I wish to highlight the lack of attention on the part of the European Commission to the international dimension of the matter, both as regards whether the UNCTAD code will apply and how the Member States will be able to change regime, and as regards the lack of detailed information on the dialogue with our partners China, Japan, Singapore and India, as regards their reaction to a possible change of regime. I would point out by way of example that Singapore has already announced that it will continue to maintain the conference system.
This is therefore a point on which I expect a reply from the European Commission as to how the European Union will act."@en1
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