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Mr President, tomorrow our Group will be voting in favour of all the amendments. I must thank the rapporteur for her hard work in bringing this consensus together, especially taking over the report as she did. It has been a wonderful example of all the institutions working together at the second reading to get a good result.
It seems to me that this is an important and innovative proposal, giving us a very high level of consumer protection, and harmonisation of that protection, across the EU, in a comprehensible and coherent way. That is to be welcomed. It is also innovative in that, as a framework directive, it is combined with the use of codes of conduct. That is a good step forward. I hope, and it seems from what has been said here already tonight, that we will all be able to give this proposal a fair wind.
On behalf of our Group, I want to make two further, more specific, points. As others have said, there are still concerns about the definition of vulnerable consumers. I know, for instance, that in some of the Nordic Member States and, indeed, in the EEA states for whom this legislation will have relevance, there are higher levels of protection already in existence. There are worries about how this will be affected in the future. I believe that the Commission, during the transition period, should give some consideration to these concerns.
I want to turn to one of the particular unfair commercial practices that is dealt with in the Annex and is the subject of an amendment that we will vote on tomorrow. It is a particular practice in my own country that has reached epidemic proportions. I refer to the telephone scams, where people are phoned – again and again, evening after evening – told that they have won a prize and invited to phone another number, which, if they do, they will run up an horrendous and huge telephone bill. We will, at last, have the ammunition to deal with that when this legislation comes into force across the European Union.
I believe there are many other good things in this proposal that commends itself to us all in the House, and I hope it and our rapporteur get the support they deserve tomorrow."@en1
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