Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-30-Speech-3-231"
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"Mr President, I simply want to say briefly that I agree with most of the analyses that the honourable Members have made. It is true that the regulatory framework is being applied very unevenly. Competition, too, is operating according to very different national systems that are often inadequate. That is why the Commission has to bring Member States before the Court of Justice when the rules are not enforced.
There are a number of cases pending before the Court of Justice, as you know; you also know that I am in constant touch with the national regulators, who meet in the European Regulators Group. That exchange of views is extremely important because it is in a way an exchange of good practice and also an opportunity to bring pressure to bear on each other. Moreover, the regulators are helping me over the prices of roaming, which are very high. I have to make clear to you that the Commission is unable to impose prices itself, but it can push for a downward revision of prices. That is what we have done with the setting up of an Internet site for comparing prices in our Member States and since that site has been up it has been visited by thousands of consumers every day. Since it has been up, too, we have noticed many prices falling in many countries. As promised, there will be a price review within six months to see what the trend is and where talks with national regulators are up to in the matter.
I told the honourable Members that talks about the present regulatory framework and its possible reform had begun. Those talks are going to take a few more months yet. The very important report before us today is Parliament’s first contribution. I am looking forward to other debates, other proposals from Parliament as from the main interested parties, and starting in the spring I shall be making a summary of those analyses, suggestions and proposals so that we can then go on to discuss a possible reform of the regulatory framework, adapting it to developing technologies and fine tuning it to the very different situations in the various Member States."@en1
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