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"Mr President, I too would like to thank the Commission. The strategic document which has been submitted to us certainly represents an important change in the single market and extends and consolidates the idea of a single market which is one of the main cornerstones of the construction of Europe. Among other things, it gives us a glimpse of a series of scenarios where the single market is certainly also the bearer of new freedoms and opportunities for the citizens.
I do not want to dwell on some legal subjects which have already been dealt with sufficiently by Mr Lehne and Mrs Palacio. I would instead like to talk about some political matters which have not yet been fully addressed by the document but which, I am sure, will be the subject of a debate in Parliament, because it is through these matters that the idea of Europe is developing. Firstly, there is the question of how we are going to create a real single market where the States are currently tending to implement protectionist measures – we have seen some cases, even recently and how the Commission intends to make the best use of the infringement procedure, speeding it up and encouraging the citizens and their associations to report the breaches of Community law which occur daily in the various Member States.
A second area is the use of new technologies. The European Union must provide a direct legal framework to allow the free movement and free provision of services and avoid conflicts and obstacles to free movement caused by too great a divergence in the legislation of the various countries of the Community. The directive on electronic signatures will definitely be followed by directives on e-commerce and copyright in the information society and on consumer protection in distance selling of financial products and other kinds of products. All the European institutions will have to be vigilant so that consistency of the common legal institutions is guaranteed. In these areas, a fair balance between public regulation and self-regulation of those concerned will allow the market to function without infringing citizens’ or consumers’ rights. Besides, these new technologies require consumers’ trust in order to be fully used. Giving your credit card details must not and cannot involve a risk.
Now we come to a third subject: how the Commission intends to act in the progressive extension of the single market to the applicant states. This must happen without calling into question the
and guaranteeing the albeit delicate balance currently in place. Applicant states’ national markets must become integrated into the Community market smoothly, and it will therefore be necessary to provide for any transitional measures which may be necessary where these countries are not yet ready. Our goal, though, must be to help them be prepared right from the first day of accession.
One final subject: what does this document mean for international economic relations, which will soon have a crucial time in the Millennium Round. We are living through a historic time which has no precedent and which calls for a far-reaching ability to adapt to changes, in order to prevent the European model leaving the international arena with its tail between its legs. Ours is the time of interdependence. Different aspects of economic and social life at a global level are entwined together and with their respective interests. Interdependence requires that diversities are taken into account, where possible, in the transition from plurality to unity, and it must be regulated by maintaining a balance in the relationship between the identities, diversities and co-existence of the models. The inevitable confrontation with diversity requires the ability to adapt one’s own identity as far as is necessary in order to be able to compete on an equal footing with others.
So, in the sectors concerned with international trade, we are assessing how the mutual influence of systems on a global level is increasing with every passing day. We know that the European model has already been taken as the basis of the transatlantic dialogue. We must not allow our efforts to let us be conditioned by other models that are not our own."@en1
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