Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-17-Speech-1-115"
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"Congratulations to our two rapporteurs, firstly Mrs Read, who has always been a doughty supporter of telecommunications. I am very pleased that she realises, as we all do, the added European value of telecommunications for all of the Lisbon agenda.
Firstly, on the trans-European networks, when I arrived in this Parliament, the talk of the town was the Delors White Paper, one of the main planks of which was European networks. I am delighted that the Commissioner and his staff have been adaptable enough to recognise that if the proposals put forward are not working as originally designed, the best thing to do is to, for example, concentrate on fewer projects in a more focused way and to increase the Commission contribution, since the 10% clearly was not stimulating the sort of initiatives we wanted. I strongly support their flexibility.
I also support, of course, the IDABC Programme as outlined by Mrs Read. I believe that one of the neglected parts of the Lisbon agenda is greater social cohesion, which the IDA Programme will contribute to greatly, as well as, of course, the knowledge-based economy.
The word 'interoperability' is appearing increasingly frequently. We are a continent comprising many small countries with different traditions. If we do not ensure that our systems can be brought together and work in an interoperable way, we are doomed to be less successful than continental blocs such as the United States. Therefore I strongly support the interoperability aim of IDA and its support of community policies as outlined by Mrs Read, those that are traditional – agriculture, employment statistics – and those that are newer – civil protection, humanitarian aid and justice and home affairs. I am also interested in making our citizens feel safer and, of course, I am also interested in the internal market.
Turning to Mr Clegg's report, I would again like to congratulate him. He and others on the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy have been very vociferous in saying that it is simply not enough to pass directives and to put in place legislation if Member States then feel free to transpose that legislation according to some personal timetable which does not make Europe more competitive or promote social cohesion.
Commissioner, I am glad that in your eighth report you bring out some of your tough instruments and make it clear that you will instigate infringement proceedings against those Member States which fail to transpose. This should be done far more frequently in a whole range of Community policy areas, because there are some Member States that take advantage of the markets created by those Member States that do transpose, while not playing fair themselves.
I also agree with Mr Clegg that accession countries should be looked at.
Congratulations again to both rapporteurs."@en1
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