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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	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.1.3-030"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-0312
lpv:speaker	lp:Mauro Nobilia2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 treasurer; UEN (2000-09-21--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-09-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, the willingness to listen and the commitment which the rapporteur has shown in drawing up this report are to be appreciated and sincerely applauded. He states in the explanatory statement that he was forced to seek a compromise between hundreds of largely homogeneous amendments. In effect, we do not feel that there is any other fair way to settle an issue which is so complex and, at the same time, so paradoxical. The complexity is caused by the implications for 15 different national situations, although all with exactly the same problems – maintaining a high-quality universal service and at least keeping levels of employment stable – and the paradoxical nature of the matter is mirrored in the contrasting elements of the reform proposed by the Commission. I would mention by way of example the time frames of the reform proposal and its entry into force, the fact that we have no knowledge of the effects of the first directive and the attractive, though groundless, observations on the future of the reform, starting with employment and its quality, maintaining an adequate universal service and the impossibility in material terms of accomplishing reform without recourse to a compensation fund. Spain might be able to enlighten us on this matter, for it established the fund and has used it, and I would mention the uncertain legal bases of the fund, the virtual criteria used in its composition and the discretionary authorisation of its application. Moreover, the report does not mention the geomorphologic characteristics of the different countries and the resulting differences in the costs of the universal service even though the categories of users are the same. The rapporteur is right, therefore, when he states that the compromise reached is the only compromise possible. Otherwise, irregular dealings would have gone on which would have been anything but transparent and above-board, with pandering possibly leading to conjuring tricks involving the special services during the transition to the private market. With regard to this, it would be as well for the Commission to conduct an inquiry to ascertain whether a private postal monopoly is not being created in Europe in the face of the process of liberalisation of the public postal monopolies, and to indicate what, in its opinion, the maximum permissible concentrations should be."@en1

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