Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-01-15-Speech-2-049"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-01-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080115.6.2-049"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-01-15-Speech-2-0502
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean Lambert2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I too would like to thank the rapporteur for his work on this. I know that this often seems like a very technical piece of work, but these rapid annual updates are important because they offer transparency for citizens about their entitlements. It also means that certain individuals can be covered more quickly. I would also like to stress – as others have done – that this is a coordination, not a harmonisation. Often that means that certain things which seem very reasonable are not necessarily acceptable within the coordination’s very limited scope. I think we also need to be clear that this coordination is not intended to undermine national systems and open them up to market forces – as I think we are beginning to see, particularly in the health sphere at the moment. As others have mentioned, the implementing regulation for the update is in progress, but we already know that certain issues are not going to be covered. I think we need to find a solution for these outside the scope of this coordination, and I would urge the Commission to look at this: for example, when tax revenue is increasingly being used to underpin social security systems and people working abroad find that they are paying tax to contribute to a social security system to which they no longer have access. I would also urge – as Parliament did some time ago – that national practice come into line with the spirit of the regulation so that we do not find, as is happening in France at the moment, that certain individuals are now no longer able to access systems to which they have been paying because of changes in national regulations."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (2007-02-27--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Green Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with India (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Japan (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Jean Lambert,"1 "on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group"1

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