Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-13-Speech-2-273"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:ECS: Statute2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030513.12.2-273"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-13-Speech-2-2742
lpv:speaker	lp:Inger Schörling2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Miljöpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is twelve years since the Commission tabled this proposal concerning the Statute for a European Cooperative Society, and, exactly as Mr De Rossa said, this discussion has in actual fact gone on for more than thirty years. The European Parliament addressed the issue at a first reading in 1993. I was not then a Member of the European Parliament but was an adviser working with small companies and cooperative societies. My then colleagues and I could not have dreamed that it would have taken such a long time to get to the point where the Statute for a European Cooperative Society was concerned. This delay has in actual fact put a damper on a very great many proposals and ideas for cooperation when it comes to the European social economy. Cooperatives are a form of company that should be given every support, especially in political quarters, because they represent participatory democracy in action. We cannot now wait any longer for this Statute. On behalf of my group, I wish therefore to appeal to the European Parliament and to my fellow MEPs to avoid further delays and not to take issue with the Council concerning the legal base and our right of codecision, even though I in principle agree with the reasons presented concerning the legal base. That is because I am afraid that a legal dispute would not benefit the cooperative companies and the social economy. Because there are so many tasks for the social economy in the new Europe, we need this Statute. Do not let it get marooned in principles and disputes concerning the legal base."@en1

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