Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-05-19-Speech-1-196"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-05-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU consumer policy strategy 2007-2013 (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080519.27.1-196"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-05-19-Speech-1-1972
lpv:speaker	lp:Piia-Noora Kauppi2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to welcome the Commission communication, as well as the report of Mr Lehtinen as both are overall very balanced pieces of work. Moreover, they rightly bring out an important notion that must be addressed at EU level – consumer policy is and must be part of the internal market. This leads me to what the Committee on Economic Affairs has rightly brought into the report: completing the internal market is in itself great consumer policy. EU-wide competition brings prices down and increases quality and consumer choice. The EU-wide access to consumers to these choices must be asserted. In an internal market, consumers are drivers of the market economy and can, through their choices, protect their own interests. Therefore, the consistent implementation of existing directives regarding the internal market is of paramount importance. The Committee on Economic Affairs’ opinion correctly highlights two areas that are of particular importance in this respect. First, financial services: a real internal market in banking, loans, insurance etc. is needed to empower European consumers. This is especially pressing as democratic developments are making best possible investment services increasingly relevant to all. Big hurdles remain to be overcome here. Second, e-commerce. This is linked to functioning financial markets and conditioned by the development of payment systems, but it is also important to practically all aspects of the internal market as the internet offers a real European marketplace. So we must make sure that European e-commerce really functions and consumers have right choices there."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; JURI (2007-01-31--2008-12-31)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2008-11-18)3 unknown; Kansallinen Kokoomus (2004-07-20--2008-12-31)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-15--2008-12-31)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2007-03-14--2008-12-31)3 member; ECON (2007-01-31--2008-07-08)3 member; FEMM (2007-01-31--2008-12-31)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs"1 "Piia-Noora Kauppi,"1

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