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"The honourable Member, Mr Harbour, is touching upon an issue that is quite sensitive. In general, everybody agrees that we should take opportunities, but in daily life, sometimes thoughts are a bit different from actions.
One of the issues that are a real challenge is that of connecting Europe’s facilities. Talking about my own shop, so to speak, out of the money that is made in the proposal as a reservation – EUR 9.2 billion for broadband investment – if you leverage the 9.2 billion, this goes up to EUR 100 billion. So do not tell me that there is no money for that type of investment. However, there, we badly need the involvement of the Member States and also the attitude and the approach of Member States. That is all connected: it is connected not only with our sectors but also with the sectors of everything that is at stake, such as the economy, creating jobs, culture, social welfare and so on.
So we must make full use of structural funds for broadband, and spend unspent funds. I was quite disappointed with the figures showing that the spending fund is not 100% accessible. The money is there but we have to make it available, and here the Member State is absolutely crucial. So we need regulation according to the fixed EU-wide end dates for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Michel is quite involved in that, agreeing with the radio spectrum policy programme.
And then there is the wireless services market: EUR 250 billion, double growth rates per year predicted for mobile data and the Member States to accelerate the allocation of spectrums for mobile communication. I am grateful to Parliament that we are near to reaching an agreement on spectrums. It seems possible that at the end of this week, there will be an agreement with Parliament. I am crossing my fingers and will be glad to help.
So we have the fast-tracking upcoming Commission proposals; the revised directive on reuse of public sector information and revision and reuse of the Commission information; the growth potential of the public sector information market and indirect impacts (EUR 140 billion); a consumer sales law to support cross-border e-commerce, which was discussed earlier on; the revised data protection directive to enable cloud offers; the revised e-signature directive and regulation on mutual recognition of EID; and the revised procurement directives, saving EUR 50 to 75 billion.
I could go on, but I can see from your body language that I should stop."@en1
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