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"Mr President, it gives me great pleasure this evening, on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, to give our opinion on what is an excellent report. We started work having the benefit of the full text of the rapporteur, Mr Huhne's report, and so our role was very much to improve on what we felt was already an excellent text.
From the perspective of the legal Affairs Committee, which was responsible for the E-commerce directive, we feel that the rapporteur's thrust – as he emphasised just now and in relation to the country-of-origin principle – is in line with our own opinion. We would add our voice very strongly to that of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in encouraging the Commission to move down this line.
I want to pick up a couple of points on our amendments. We are very grateful to the rapporteur for accepting all of the amendments of the Legal Affairs Committee and to the committee for voting them into the final report. We lay particular emphasis on the question of a payment and payment systems. It is quite clear from recent studies across the European Union that one of the things that is deterring consumers from shopping in the electronic age is worry about the security of their payments. This will be absolutely crucial if financial services are to move forward. So we have suggested a number of methods for improving the security of electronic payments. We have encouraged the Commission, particularly, to take a look at emerging forms of electronic payment. While at the moment a very high level of consumer transactions are made by credit cards, we think that new formats will emerge and that the Commission needs to take that into account.
In conclusion, legislation has to enable contracts to be concluded by means of electronic signatures in financial services transactions. We pointed that out as a specific area to be addressed.
This is a very good report. I encourage the House to give it its full support when we vote on it tomorrow."@en1
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