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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I very much wish to emphasise the importance of this report on volunteering, and also to congratulate the rapporteur, with whom I had an excellent relationship in the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), especially to ensure that Parliament’s attention on this issue will not wane now that the European Year of Volunteering is over.
We were hoping – as I had asked previously in my role as shadow rapporteur – for a White Paper on volunteering work, which unfortunately has not been forthcoming. That would have provided an overall comparative framework at European level between the various situations, defining a status for European volunteering work and ensuring consistent fiscal treatment. I find that, despite not having had this, this report does fill a void and looks ahead. It is important to want to strengthen cross-border volunteering and remove the barriers that hamper many volunteers from gaining access to this opportunity and also, in particular, for disadvantaged people who need to be able to get help from volunteers. I think it is vital for us to find out how widespread volunteering is in areas such as cultural heritage, the environment and sport, and to make sure that in European tenders, the work of voluntary associations can be considered as a form of cofinancing for the purposes of being eligible for such tenders."@en1
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