Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-19-Speech-2-419"

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dcterms:Date	"2007-06-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Derogations from internal market rules for defence procurement on the basis of Article 296 TEC (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070619.46.2-419"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-06-19-Speech-2-4202
lpv:speaker	lp:Malcolm Harbour2
lpv:spoken text	". Mr President, I wish to begin by welcoming the Commissioner’s clear commitment to producing the new directive as soon as possible and by thanking him for outlining a number of important measures on which he and his departments are already working. Clearly, this is a particularly sensitive area because of both its strategic nature and some of the industrial policy issues surrounding the whole defence sector. I should like to raise two particular points, to which the Commissioner could perhaps respond in his winding-up statement. Firstly, it is clear that in many areas of defence equipment procurement there are very complex contractual arrangements, in many cases also involving a significant amount of product development. In other words, the specification of the equipment may involve new technology evolutions. These arrangements will be very different in many cases from conventional buying contracts, although, as I indicated in my response to Mrs McCarthy’s report, there is increasing interest in more transparent conditions for these types of contracts. I wonder whether the Commissioner could indicate or confirm that he will be taking these specific strategic needs into account. The second point, which is a difficult one, is that in many cases defence procurement agreements also have some form of offset agreement attached to them. For instance, the procuring countries may be looking for some form of local investment, involving local firms in assembling the equipment. Or, in some cases, there is a completely different sort of financial offset in terms of an agreement to buy products from a company in another market. These arrangements seem to raise difficult issues in the context of both competition and procurement law, and I should be grateful if the Commissioner could confirm that he will be looking at these in the review of the directive he has promised."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; IMCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Malcolm Harbour,"1 "on behalf of the PPE-DE Group"1

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