Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-13-Speech-2-170"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Final agreement on the reform of the system for international transfers of footballers2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010313.12.2-170"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-13-Speech-2-1712
lpv:speaker	lp:Christopher Heaton-harris2
lpv:spoken text	"Commissioner, you mentioned the ongoing evaluation that you will be making over the next two years. I wonder whether it would not have been wiser to have carried out an assessment of the economic impact on small clubs before you travelled down this road. Many of the smaller clubs in my region, who cradle players for the obvious talents of the north-west clubs in the UK, are particularly worried about this. There has been a lot of talk about football here today, but you mentioned sport and this is specifically a sports remit. Other sports have transfer fees and I wonder which other sports you have discussed this with. I find it very interesting that players now have different rights depending on their age – 23 being the case in point here. I was wondering for Commissioner Diamantopoulou whether this sets a precedent for other European employment legislation. Finally, Commissioner, you mentioned the changes to FIFA rules and regulations. The calculation behind the effective training costs was recently posted on the FIFA website. FIFA state it would be impossible to do this for individual players so they want to do this by league and type of club. This recommendation means that the smaller the club, the smaller the amount of money the club will receive in compensation for training costs. The categories are a category-one club of a top level, with a high quality training centre; category two: still professional but on a lower level – second division clubs in the UK; category three: all types of third-division clubs, as in the UK; category four: amateur players – Vauxhall Conference and other amateur footballers. Are we not building another type of discrimination into football, which we really did not need in the first place?"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; CONT (2000-05-03--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Heaton-Harris (PPE-DE )."1

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