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". I voted against this proposal that European Member States should be obliged to open up all railway networks to private companies by 2012. First of all, what we need is an extensive evaluation of the different Member States’ past experiences of railway liberalisation. Both the Commission proposal and the Jarzembowski report are premature and lack a solid basis. The proposed directive fails to provide binding agreements in relation to the quality of services, security or environmental requirements. In addition, the same form of liberalisation of the rail network is imposed on all EU countries, which differ widely in terms of the position from which they would start and of the way in which their railways are used. This makes it necessary to list the forms of rail liberalisation that have worked in the past and those that have not. There is also the issue of whether Europe can indeed add value to the way in which Member States can, in future, make their national railways more efficient, more customer-friendly and more environmentally-friendly. It may be the case that, once the situation in the different Member States has been assessed, we will have no choice but to admit that this subject should ideally be tackled at national level after all, because each situation is unique. For the time being, I refuse to endorse the wild liberalisation plans that are now before us."@en1

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