Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-12-Speech-1-176"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU restrictions on liquids that passengers can carry on aircrafts (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070212.16.1-176"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-02-12-Speech-1-1772
lpv:speaker	lp:John Purvis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I expect the Commissioner is ushered through the VIP lounge in the airport and does not have to suffer what we and our constituents have to suffer, which is long queues and half an hour waiting, as I had this morning, crammed into a small area with 800 constituents and valued visitors to my country. Pre-security would have been the ideal target for a terrorist, not the plane afterwards. I will have the same experience on Thursday evening when I go to Frankfurt Airport to try and go home. There will be another crammed, congested situation. That is a dangerous by-product of what has been achieved with these regulations. It is the same in every airport in Europe. It is probably the same in airports throughout the world now: congestion, inconvenience, costs, indignity, journeys foregone, tourists and businesspeople who just do not come our way any more. You have heard about third-country duty-free sales from my Irish colleagues and my colleague David Martin from Scotland. There has been a major reduction in the sale of our prized high-value products – French, as well as Scottish and Irish, I may say. Perhaps, ultimately, money will talk. What about purchases made in the EU but not in airports? You might get that special whisky or that special wine in a shop in Bordeaux or Edinburgh. You can no longer take that back in your hand luggage: you have to pack it in your hold luggage and it is probably broken on the way home. What about the olive oil from Italy? This is an infringement on the free movement of goods. I should like to ask the Commissioner to start negotiations with the ICAO so that globally we can have at least a common rule for the movement of goods around the world, like we used to have."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Iran (2004-10-13--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-02-16--2007-06-19)3 vice-chair; ECON (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"John Purvis (PPE-DE ). –"1

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