Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-21-Speech-1-065"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-05-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The exclusion of health services from the Services Directive (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070521.15.1-065"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-05-21-Speech-1-0662
lpv:speaker	lp:Harald Ettl2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with India (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-06-19)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, Commissioner, all members of the European public attach great importance to high-quality health services, and health becomes even more important in view of the ageing population right across Europe. Health services pursue the same objectives as do other social services of general interest and are founded upon the solidarity principle, fundamental values and equality of access, while universality, equal treatment and solidarity must continue to be ensured. The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs has once again confirmed that the exclusion of health services from the scope of the services directive was motivated by the desire to identify health services as a higher good for the European Union, and that the adjustment of the voting result from the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection in the plenary is necessary if a false signal is not to be sent in respect of the ongoing process. These services must be recognised by means of further legislation at European level and must not be made subject to free competition. What is needed is a legal framework, a proposal, which might, for example, take the form of a sectoral directive for health care services on which the social partners and decision-makers would be consulted, and with a requirement for clear rules on liability for injury sustained by patients during treatment. Reimbursement of costs must be transparent and comprehensible, and uniform social, labour and quality standards must be complied with when service providers establish themselves; health services are not just services of any sort or kind, and we must handle them carefully, because, in the final analysis, it is your health, too, that they are all about."@en1

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