Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Competition between postal services2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.1.3-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Per Stenmarck2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I come from the most deregulated country as far as the postal service sector is concerned. At the same time, it is the country where the highest number of letters are delivered the day after they have been posted. Also, no other country in the European Union has such fast distribution of post from abroad. There is a connection between all of this. Even though the previously dominant national company in Sweden is still by far and away the largest, the growing competition currently from 50 other companies has meant that they have been forced to become considerably more efficient than they were before. It is this kind of future I would also like to see in the other countries within the European Union. Allow me briefly to say a few words regarding the quite obvious hypocrisy also found within this sector. The British Royal Mail and the French to name but two, oppose any form of competition in Great Britain and France respectively. This does not prevent both companies from wanting to get in on the act and claim a share of the market in countries where deregulation has taken place. It would, of course, be reasonable for the Commission to examine the legality of companies who refuse other companies access to their markets and yet gladly claim a share of the market in countries where deregulation has taken place. Allow me to conclude by thanking the rapporteur, Mr Ferber, who has made several attempts at reaching a compromise. There should be no reflection on him, but there has been a lack of desire on the part of others. I do not consider the current draft to be a compromise. It would have been a compromise if an end-date for completion of the liberalisation had been set. If this date is set later than, for example, 2007, it will, in my opinion, be completely meaningless. By then, the market will have resolved this issue. There is therefore currently no reason to support such an amendment, and in that case I see no alternative than to vote against the report."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"La Poste"1

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