Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-12-Speech-2-084"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Energy2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020312.4.2-084"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-12-Speech-2-0852
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicholas Clegg2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, reading the newspapers one would think that the European Council in Barcelona is going to settle every detail of this legislation. The press suggests that Barcelona will determine whether energy liberalisation takes place at all or not, and yet I do not see Mr Blair, Mr Aznar or other prime ministers here. This is an important point: the liberalisation of the energy sector, one of the last components of the single market yet to be subject to single-market disciplines, is a legislative process. We must assert our fundamental role in that legislative process. This legislation will go through to second reading well after the political pyrotechnics of Barcelona are long forgotten. It is essential, therefore, that at first reading we establish the principles of the legislation so that at second reading we can indeed push through a proper liberalising energy package. Mr Chichester referred earlier to the need to get the details right. He is absolutely correct. In that spirit I have two specific questions for the EPP-ED Group, which has been keen to promote itself as the liberal voice on this issue and yet, I fear, may be voting quite differently tomorrow. Firstly, will the EPP-ED Group support the amendment adopted in committee to make sure that nuclear decommissioning funds cannot be used as a cross-subsidy for electricity operators? If not, it should explain why not, because of the risk of destroying the level playing field. Secondly, will it withdraw its own amendments, passed in committee, which insist on negotiated access? If those amendments are retained the package will be severely undermined. I look forward to working with you in the vote tomorrow. This has been an excellent cross-party endeavour and on behalf of the ELDR Group I wholeheartedly support the result."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Clegg (ELDR )."1

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