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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Reform of European competition policy2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000118.2.2-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-18-Speech-2-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Isabelle Caullery2
lpv:spokenAs	treasurer; UEN (1999-07-20--2000-09-20)3,3 member; ECON (1999-10-04--2000-03-12)3,3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2003-01-20)3,3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-10-04--2000-02-28)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, in the course of this pivotal year, prior to the changeover to the single currency, the Commission has deployed every effort to ensure the birth of the euro in a favourable environment. The competition policy has, as far as these resources permitted, contributed to this event. For our part, we remain staunchly opposed to the single currency which, far from bringing us the advantages and flexibility of a shared currency, imprisons us in an artificial straitjacket, which has been imposed on the peoples of Europe. Having said that, governing means planning. It also means being responsible and, in this new context which has been forced upon us, competition law naturally has an essential role to play. In this area, the Commission has given priority to a number of routes of action: acting on the structure of markets by actively combating anti-competitive practices, by refocusing its departments’ supervisory activities only upon matters with a manifest Community interest and by affirming its intention to modernise competition law. As regards state aid, it is essential to ensure that regulations are not made more complex, and the introduction of a public register, where all aid would be recorded, does not seem advisable to us since this onerous commitment would quite naturally run counter to the attempts to simplify bureaucratic constraints. Finally, on the subject of modernising the implementation of Articles 85 and 86 of the Treaty, we do not think that decentralised application would necessarily be going in the right direction. The Commission is, in fact, retaining not only the power to take matters out of the jurisdiction of national authorities, but clearly obliging the national jurisdictions to avoid disputing the decisions of the Commission at all. National states would thus become the secular arm of the Commission regarding observance of the application of rules which they do not control. In conclusion, I would say that while some measures are heading in the right direction, we shall of course remain vigilant in order to prevent the snowballing of Federalism which, if it were realised, would be to the detriment of Europe and the sovereignty of the states."@en1

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