Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-18-Speech-5-050"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-02-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European postal services2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000218.3.5-050"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-18-Speech-5-0512
lpv:speaker	lp:John Purvis2
lpv:spoken text	"It is particularly appropriate that Mr Monti is responding to this debate because the great conundrum with postal services is how to square an open market and free and fair competition with providing a service which is universally available to all, even in the remotest and least inhabited region of the European Union. In the hills and glens of Scotland and the rural borders and central belt, on the beautiful but fragile islands of the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, there is real concern at possibly losing this essential service. Yet we all know that service quality can only improve if postal services, like all service industries, are given the financial and management freedom of the private sector and the spur of open, even international, competition. I would suggest that there is a solution. It is already employed widely in the transport sector. Air routes, ferry routes, train routes, bus routes, within and to these remoter areas are put out to tender. The bidder who offers to provide the specific service at a specific quality level and at the lowest subsidy level gets the contract. Let us call this a negative tender franchise. This permits desirable competition in providing these services under a publicly-supported but fully transparent franchise system. Why could not mail collection and delivery in a certain region be put to negative tender in this manner? The lowest subsidy would win the franchise for a certain period of time. Why could not the sub-post office in a remote village also be put out to this sort of negative tender? It would therefore be up to the appropriate democratically accountable government body, local, regional or national – probably under overall EU supervision – to set the service criteria and the financial resources for meeting this particular social purpose. Otherwise the postal services can be left to all the demands and constraints of the marketplace."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Purvis (PPE-DE )."1

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