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"Mr President, monopolies are not acceptable, whether state or otherwise, and we must be careful with the single market not to create new private monopolies in the energy sector.
I would also like to emphasise that the concept of public service and of the public good must go hand-in-hand with liberalization. I am referring to social and environmental concerns which this Parliament has always supported but which are not yet sufficiently articulated in the energy sector with reference to the single market.
It is particularly regrettable that liberalization has gone hand-in-hand with a negative impact on energy saving. This is something that we all pay a great deal of lip service to but we are in practice regressing, we are going backwards on energy-saving. We must meet our Kyoto commitments: we have international treaties and obligations under them and it is time that we took this more seriously.
I welcome proposals for network access for renewable energies. Subsidies for traditional forms of energies have been intense and are partly responsible for limited progress on renewables. It would be very regrettable if Japan, for example, were to surpass us in the new technologies which we have developed and researched over many years. This is currently something that we should be concerned about. If we support network access for renewables in Europe, we should not find ourselves in this position.
Liberalization should apply to all energy sectors, particularly the nuclear sector where there are huge subsidies from some states. Yet the Commission is not tackling this head on. Perhaps it is afraid. I have discussed this with Commissioner Monti. He is a powerful Commissioner and even he is unwilling to tackle some of the Member States head on in this regard. But it is a level playing field, fair is fair, and the nuclear sectors cannot be subsidised.
Finally on the Florence process, we must involve the Parliament and we must have some democratic involvement in this process. We cannot just let it remain outside Parliamentary control although it has been useful in some respects."@en1
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