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Mr President, I would like to say what a pleasure it is to be here this afternoon. With several hours of further debates ahead of me, I will have been able to spend the whole day in the Hemicycle, and what more could a man want – except perhaps to be lying on a beach in Langkawi?!
The honourable Member raises some extremely important issues, and I will come to some of the points he raised in a moment. I recognise that his question suggests that there is still some confusion about the Commission's intentions. So I want at the outset to state as clearly as I can that the Commission does not intend to adopt any final package before drawing political conclusions from the broad public consultation on the Green Paper on services of general interest. The Commission services have assessed very carefully the responses received with regard to the financing of services of general interest. The responses are various and interesting, and I can, if Parliament would like, refer to some of them.
The public consultation has clearly confirmed the need to increase legal certainty and clarity with regard to the application of the state aid rules in this area. In fact the comments received from interested parties and also the discussion on the Green Paper in Parliament have both shown that there is a broad agreement that such a clarification is not only necessary, but is also urgent. A decision exempting certain types of aid from the notification obligation would be, in our judgment, an appropriate instrument for achieving more legal certainty.
Given the urgent need for clarification the Commission is considering extending the consultation started by the Green Paper to the specific aspect of financial compensations for public service obligations. This could be done by submitting appropriate proposals for consultation.
In conclusion, I re-emphasise that the Commission will not draw any definitive conclusions in the area of services of general economic interest before it has presented its conclusions on the consultation on the Green Paper, which it intends to submit during the month of April, which is exactly what Parliament has requested."@en1
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