Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-17-Speech-2-025"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-01-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Market access to port services2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060117.5.2-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-01-17-Speech-2-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Georgios Toussas2
lpv:spokenAs	member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-20--2006-12-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, our debate is being held in the aftermath of the mass unemployment demonstration by dockworkers held yesterday in all the ports of the Member States with a great deal of success, sending a perfectly clear message to withdraw this directive on access to port services. It is also being held two years after its rejection by the European Parliament. The new version of this directive on ports, despite misleading claims of transparency, guarantees and so forth, is even worse than the one voted down by the European Parliament on 23 November 2003. There is, in our view, a major political issue here. Although the European Parliament rejected the directive in question, although the new version of it was rejected in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and although the rapporteur's proposal was voted down in the Committee on Transport and Tourism, the Commission has insisted that it be brought before the European Parliament, demonstrating once again the correlation between the will of the Members of the European Parliament and the workers employed in this sensitive area. The new version of the directive includes selling off ports to the private sector, together with the entire range of port services: loading and unloading, stevedoring and storage. Allow me to close by briefly adding the following to what other speakers have said: one of the basic issues which is a priority for the European Parliament is the safety of life at sea and environmental safety. Adopting this directive will increase the risks and we ..."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause from the GUE/NGL Group)"1 "(The President cut off the speaker)"1

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