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dcterms:Date	"2000-07-04"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20000704.12.2-286"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Konstantinos Hatzidakis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-10-06--2000-08-29)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Madam Vice-President of the Commission, I should like to start by congratulating the two rapporteurs, Mr Jarzembowski, who has taken over from Mr Pavlos Sarlis, our former fellow Member of the European Parliament who acted as rapporteur for the first reading, and Mr Swoboda, for their reports. Allow me to say that they both explained the technical aspects of their reports extremely well. As Chairman of the Committee on Transport, I should like to highlight two conclusions which I think we need to draw from this debate. The first conclusion concerns the liberalisation of the railways. This is something we have been hearing about for years, just as we have heard a great deal about the single market in the European Union for years. The time has come for action rather than words, on both counts. We need to accept that there will be no complete single market unless transport is fully liberalised and I think that liberalising the railways will be a decisive step in this direction and will make a decisive contribution towards the revival of the declining means of transport which we call the railways. The second message concerns the Council. The Council needs to take serious account of Parliament's views. Of course, we reached a compromise in Helsinki with Mrs de Palacio's help. This compromise is welcome but it is not enough; we need to go further and account needs to be taken of Parliament's position if we are to do so. The Council is wrong to believe that the discussion ended in Helsinki last December with the compromise at Council level. Parliament is here, it has its views, it supports them clearly and will, we believe, support them during tomorrow's vote which, I think, will confirm what was decided at the committee meeting during which the reports were adopted by a large majority."@en1

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