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Mr President, I should like to congratulate the rapporteur, in particular, on having helped make a success of the conciliation meeting. She has enabled us to arrive at a balanced text after four years of discussions. I believe that Mrs Wallis should be congratulated on the effectiveness with which she has largely helped to make a success of this matter.
In my view, this text is key to the completion of the European area of justice and to the proper functioning of the internal market. It would seem that its implementation in practice is now keenly awaited by the legal and judicial fields as well as by economic operators at EU level.
On the one hand, ‘Rome II’ will help to increase legal certainty in the area of civil obligations, which is crucial to the proper functioning of the internal market. On the other hand, this regulation will also facilitate the mutual recognition of decisions – a pillar of the European area of justice – and that, in turn, will make it possible to promote mutual confidence among the Member States' judicial systems.
A key issue for Parliament concerns the improved compensation for victims of road accidents. In this regard, I can confirm my commitment and that of the Commission to launch an exhaustive study as soon as possible at EU level and to take the necessary measures, which will enable us to reach the stage of adopting a Green Paper.
I can also confirm the Commission’s commitment to submit another study to the colegislator before the end of 2008 on the situation in terms of the law applicable to invasion of privacy, which takes account of the rules on freedom of the press and on freedom of media expression. As I promised during the conciliation phase, should it prove necessary, appropriate measures will be taken, on the basis of consultations.
Finally, with regard to the complex issue of the application of foreign law by the courts, the Commission – which is aware of the existence of different practices in the Member States – is going to publish, at the very latest four years after the entry into force of ‘Rome II’, a comparative analysis and will be ready to take any appropriate measures that follow on from it.
To conclude, I should like Parliament to confirm this agreement reached in conciliation as the climax to the long-awaited adoption of the ‘Rome II’ regulation and I hope that the text will be endorsed by a large majority of Members."@en1
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