Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-03-Speech-1-121"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Recent developments in and prospects for company law (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060703.17.1-121"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-03-Speech-1-1222
lpv:speaker	lp:Charlotte Cederschiöld2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; IMCO (2006-01-24--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Moderata Samlingspartiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2007-07-22)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, most people support better and simpler legislation and measures to prevent abuse. Transparency and public scrutiny are often good tools for achieving these things. Politicians often have a tendency to believe that companies are public institutions owned by themselves, but that is not the case. Companies are property, and they belong to their owners, not to politicians. Ownership is the very basis of the market economy. Do not allow market forces to be eliminated. If the ground rules are changed, businesses suffer, as does everyone. Businesses need fixed, long-term ground rules. My concern regarding the matter on today’s agenda relates to the rules governing voting rights. The Member States have different models for taking care of companies’ interest in developing their business, which is to say entrepreneurs’ interests. Sweden has a model guaranteed in the compromise we reached in April 2004. I should appreciate it if Mr Lehne too listened to what is being said. I am therefore less delighted about the external study that is to review the rules governing voting rights because experience shows that such studies have a tendency to be rather one-sided. The fact that objectivity has been included among the demands made of the working party does in fact indicate a lack of confidence right from the start. There can be no guarantee of objectivity. It would therefore be appropriate to have representatives of the Nordic system in this working party so that any kind of result that is finally produced might inspire confidence in the people of the Nordic countries. This is a matter to which I should like Mr Lehne to pay a bit of attention. It is true that this is an own-initiative report, but it should not be used in such a way as to block development after 2012. If large countries retain their cross-ownership and their rules on voting rights, small countries should be able to do so too. We have a deal, and it must be honoured. There is nothing to say that it must be abandoned in 2012. Instead, it can be renewed. Pacta sunt servanda."@en1

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