Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-03-12-Speech-1-186"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Community action on the provision of cross-border health care (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070312.22.1-186"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-03-12-Speech-1-1872
lpv:speaker	lp:Charlotte Cederschiöld2
lpv:spokenAs	member; IMCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Moderata Samlingspartiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2007-07-22)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I want firstly to thank the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety for having put this excellent question to the Commission and providing the opportunity to hear the Commission’s reaction to important questions put to it. It also gives those of us in the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection the chance to put forward what we think is important. Health is an area in which the Member States have competence and in which the principle of subsidiarity applies. That does not, however, mean that people should not be entitled to health care and medical treatment in other Member States. We cannot maintain that we defend the patient’s right to safe, high-quality care if we do not allow those who need, for one reason or another, to seek health care in another Member State actually to do so. We must do our utmost to preserve these rights, in spite of the various problems of which all Members are so well aware – problems, yes, but also positive aspects, especially on the information side. It is also obvious – or, in any case, it should be – that the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice cannot be weakened by secondary legislation. There is such a thing as established practice, and the Treaty gives everyone who wants to do so the right to make services available in another Member State, in full accordance, mind you, with the laws of that Member State. As I see it, the Commission should withdraw all legislation in which the Member States and the governments try to limit existing primary law for patients or service providers. It is important that the proposal produced by the Commission should be a step forward, rather than backward, and we have high hopes of Commissioner Kyprianou in this regard."@en1

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