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dcterms:Date	"2010-07-05"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100705.15.1-037"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Brian Simpson2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, what we have before us today are the final two pieces of the passenger rights jigsaw covering maritime and bus and coach dossiers. I thank our rapporteurs for their work and welcome the apparent agreement reached with Council in regards to maritime transport. However, the failure as yet to agree a formula on bus and coach travel is disappointing, but we will carry on trying in the intermediate period to have an agreement. It is on this area that I wish to concentrate today. Clearly, it would be nonsensical and unfair to have passenger rights in other modes of transport but not buses and coaches. Therefore, an agreement or deal which does not include buses and coaches is a pretty worthless and incomplete deal. We cannot accept the exclusion of the vast majority of bus and coach services from the scope of this regulation. We cannot accept the weakening of the rights of people with reduced mobility also in this regulation. And we cannot accept that this mode of transport is any different to any other. Our rapporteur has done a good job in trying to find a compromise in this area. The Council have done nothing to facilitate any agreement and, as usual, have spent most of that time dragging their feet. It is interesting that, when passenger rights are on the agenda, the Council gets very negative and it is left to Parliament to carry the banner for passengers. Parliament has a good record in defending passenger rights, despite being faced by abuse by a certain airline chief and numerous moans and groans from transport operators. At the end of the day, Parliament will not tolerate abuse of passengers by operators; it will not tolerate discrimination; it will not tolerate certain sectors being left out. We need to support our rapporteurs so that we can go into battle with Council through conciliation with a very strong hand."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Brian Simpson,"1 "on behalf of the S&D Group."1
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