Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-04-Speech-3-305"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-06-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Employee financial participation2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030604.9.3-305"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-04-Speech-3-3062
lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Bushill-matthews2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I should like to thank the rapporteur for insisting on having a debate on this issue because it is indeed a very important subject. May I also thank the Secretariat for scheduling this debate, yet again, at such a late hour, even though it means that some of us who started in this House at breakfast time have already been here for over 13 hours. I must confess that I am again in contravention of the EU Working Time Directive and, as a good European, I should not break European law. I am sure I would be in the Commission's bad books by so doing. I hope I will be forgiven, at least on this one occasion. Having said that, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on the spirit in which he has approached this complicated subject and the way in which he has embraced amendments from all sides, certainly including some of my own. I would make just one tiny criticism – which I hope he will not take as nit-picking, as we say in the UK – but it is a compliment to him, rather than a criticism. I felt that his original version of one of the recitals was better than the compromise. Recital D stated ‘whereas it is neither necessary nor desirable and practicable to harmonise the rules for financial participation schemes, as this would impede the flexibility of Member States' policies’. That was absolutely spot on. But, as he knows, there was a compromise with the PSE Group that stated ‘ neither necessary nor desirable and practicable to harmonise ’. That was perhaps a mistake, because there is no need whatsoever to harmonise policies in this respect. We are exactly on the right lines as we are. But that is a very small point. I am very much in sympathy with the thrust of his report. Personally I will be supporting his report wholeheartedly and I shall be encouraging all my colleagues to do the same."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
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