Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-07-10-Speech-2-027"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-07-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Community postal services (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070710.5.2-027"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-07-10-Speech-2-0282
lpv:speaker	lp:Dirk Sterckx2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten - Vivant (2004-07-20--2008-04-17)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2009-07-13)3 member; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I support the compromise which the rapporteur and shadow rapporteurs have reached. I think that an open European market for postal companies is the only way of addressing the competition with the electronic alternatives. These companies need to modernise, they need to adapt to new circumstances; and, if you have the cushion of a monopoly, then you are unlikely to go out and find new customers. Then you will carry on as before. We also have a clear timeframe: 2011. Everyone knows where they stand then. We would stress the importance of the public service, not simply to citizens, in fact. This public service is also extremely important to small companies. Also, a tough question is how we compensate for the possible loss of this public service? This is where the Member States could play a key role, as Mr Grosch has already mentioned, but I should nevertheless like to say that this compensation should not be used to allow postal companies that have always been performing badly to continue in the same vein. We must make the postal sector more efficient, and I think that this will be one of the key effects the proposal on which we will be voting tomorrow will have."@en1

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