Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-03-Speech-2-067"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission’s proposal for a regulation shows that the obsession to make everything uniform with no regard for subsidiarity will affect those on the lowest incomes. The elected representatives of the CPNT
group are not prepared to abandon small retailers and smallholders to the sharks of the mass distribution sector, which is free to embark on the anti-competitive
practice of sales below cost. Several national laws forbid this type of underhand behaviour. The consumer will actually suffer on two counts. Below cost sales is not an act of charity
but the taking over of a market share, which will have to be compensated elsewhere. Citizens will also suffer from the closure of local facilities, which are already in great difficulty in rural areas and town centres. The quality of the work carried out by our fellow Members in the Committee on Legal Affairs is not in question and many negative details have been eliminated, but there is a risk that the Commission, as on many other matters, will ignore this work and will, for the most part, stand by its original position.
To sum up, we believe that the only appropriate and responsible political option, as has been proposed to you, is to reject the Commission’s proposals, as this will be in everyone’s interests. If you agree to let the rot set in, you should not be the first to complain when all goes wrong in the future."@en1
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