Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-05-05-Speech-3-587"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-05-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100505.78.3-587"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-05-05-Speech-3-5882
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Engel2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Parti chrétien social luxembourgeois (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; EMPL (2009-07-16--2011-12-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, let us talk about the reality of car dealers. Car dealers, in my country as in others, are worried about the glaring discrepancy between their scope for action and that of manufacturers. Regulation (EC) No 1400/2002 reduced this discrepancy. Without it, the car distribution sector, which has already suffered as a result of the crisis, would face growing uncertainty as regards its investments and its commercial objectives. The demands made on dealers by manufacturers will become quite simply unbearable and unmanageable for a large number of modest garage owners. In any case, Commissioner, it is not competition that is at stake here. Competition would increase between car manufacturers and not between dealers or between dealers and manufacturers. Local garage owners cannot pose a threat to free competition in Europe. You talk about market domination, potential domination. Let us talk about it, then! This domination does not exist in the case of competing manufacturers. It does not exist in respect of other producers. It exists between car manufacturers and distributors, and that is a reality that has been proven throughout the European Union. The Commission is adopting a scientific position based on large companies to deal with a huge number of minor players, who want only one thing: a bit of freedom and a bit of security in their dealings with car manufacturers, whose practices with regard to their dealers are becoming frankly appalling in some cases. It is David versus Goliath, except that, this time, the Commission seems to want to ensure that it is definitely Goliath who wins. The position and the reasoning behind the abolition of the exemption regulation are misguided. They are wrong; they are aimed at the wrong people. Reducing the scope for action, legal certainty and willingness to invest of garage owners will not further the internal market, and it certainly will not further consumers’ interests."@en1
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