Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-14-Speech-3-370"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-06-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Late payment in commercial transactions2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000614.15.3-370"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-14-Speech-3-3712
lpv:speaker	lp:Marianne Thyssen2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christelijke Volkspartij (1999-07-20--2001-09-30)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I have already received many reactions from within the SME world to the text that we will be adopting tomorrow and, partly on behalf of all these SMEs, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on the work. I hope that Mr Linkohr will pass on these congratulations to Mr Murphy. I would also like to thank the Commission for its cooperation, which has been as constructive as ever. We should be proud of the common text which we will be adopting tomorrow and which we were able to adopt in the Conciliation Committee. It is regulating what should be regulated. Nothing more, nothing less. It is also regulating matters to the extent that they need to be regulated at European level. Again, nothing more, nothing less. And it is regulating matters in a legally well-organised way. We can defend it perfectly from all angles, both with regard to transactions between traders and transactions between traders and the government. Mr President, as early as in 1993 – at the very outset of the internal market – we, together with Parliament, asked the Commission to submit a proposal to regulate late payments. Initially, the Commission’s reaction was low-key, in the form of a recommendation. It subsequently took a tougher line with a proposal for binding rules. It took all of us two years to make the political choices and to formulate them in a technically correct manner. We have now provided the framework; all that is left now is the transposition. The Member States have been given two years to do this in. Let us hope, together with the thousands of SMEs in whose interest it is for the Member States to respect the transposition period, that our Member States act more swiftly. In fact, let us encourage them to do so. As far as I am concerned, a European Cup should go to the Member State which manages to finish its homework first. I have another question for the Commission. I should like to have known whether it plans to formulate proposals on conditions for setting up debt-collecting agencies, which is one of the issues which we discussed for a long time in the course of the preliminary work but which we left out of this directive for a good reason. My question is whether the Commission is planning to make proposals in this respect at a later stage and, if so, when?"@en1

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