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dcterms:Date	"2016-11-23"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20161123.34.3-636-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2016-11-23-Speech-3-637-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Brian Hayes2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, on behalf of the Committee on Development, and the opinion, we managed to bring near unanimity in terms of our Committee. We welcome this report and congratulate Mrs Bearder for the work that she has done; equally we congratulate the Commission on their ambitious action plan. It is worth saying that we are talking here about an illegal activity, which has been recognised to be close to USD 19 billion in terms of its scale globally. We are talking about the fourth largest illegal activity on the planet and Europe is not just a taker of this illegal activity; it is also a significant transit point. So we have responsibilities. We have signed up to a UN Convention and, as the Commissioner has said, it is now about implementation. It is about getting it done, Member State by Member State, and calling out those Member States where there is an insufficiency of response in terms of that UN mandate. So we very much support what Mrs Bearder has put forward in this particular resolution. The Committee on Development fully supports the work that she has brought to Parliament in terms of this plenary session. We expect substantial support for this in the House tomorrow. It is worth saying, as she rightly said, that the public is ahead of politicians here. The public is demanding action on this illegal activity. They are demanding an international coordinated response and if it does not start here within the European Union, across the 28 Member States, it cannot start anywhere, and I think that is the message that needs to come from this debate this evening."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 substitute; DEVE (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 member; ECON (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 substitute; Committee of Inquiry to investigate alleged contraventions and maladministration in the application of Union law in relation to money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (2016-06-24--2017-12-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Brian Hayes,"1 "rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Development"1
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