Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-03-24-Speech-2-274"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-03-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20090324.26.2-274"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-03-24-Speech-2-2752
lpv:speaker	lp:Bruno Gollnisch2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; NA (2007-11-14--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Front national (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr Becsey’s report proposes closer harmonisation of taxes on tobacco at a higher level and feebly takes cover behind objectives of public health in order to justify it. In fact, the real objective is a pure and perfect cigarette market on a European scale, a ‘decompartmentalised’ market with a single tax where competition can run riot. A little coherence, please. Either it is health that takes precedence or it is the market. For certain products, it cannot be the market. Some states, like France and Belgium, have been taken to court by the Commission for having introduced threshold or minimum sales prices. It is not without reason that the tobacco trade is regulated to this extent, at national level (distribution subject to authorisation) or international level (limited cross-border purchases) and that, for once, border controls actually exist, even if they are hampered by European regulation. Finally, this report is worrying for the future of French tobacconists, who play such an important role in maintaining local shops and supplying certain public services in rural areas and who were seriously threatened by a previous tax increase."@en1

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