Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-07-06-Speech-4-375"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-07-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Short sea shipping2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000706.14.4-375"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-07-06-Speech-4-3762
lpv:speaker	lp:Professor Sir Neil MacCORMICK2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, in this group we welcome the Peijs report and we welcome the Commission's stance to which it is responding. It is indeed true that short sea shipping is environmentally friendly and cost-effective, and it is indeed true that it supports the economic development of maritime regions; but we in Scotland call upon the Commission, therefore, to get its act together in respect of the forthcoming liberalisation of sea transport in the west of Scotland. As Mrs Attwooll has just pointed out, we not only have island transport there but also important short sea links across what we call sea lochs and the geologists call fjords, where instead of going 150 kilometres up a narrow road over a mountain pass, you can take a boat across a narrow water. If we were to interpret the regulation on maritime cabotage sensibly, we would say: Of course these peninsulas are functionally equivalent to islands, and public service obligations apply in these cases as well. In that case it would be quite lawful for the state to support the services there. In the same way, one could then take a holistic look at the package of routes across the west of Scotland, instead of breaking it up, inviting cherry-picking by private entrepreneurs who come in to take the few paying routes and make it harder to sustain the routes which are not profitable all the year round. We want a holistic look at that kind of thing throughout Europe, we want an imaginative approach by the Commission. It is six weeks since I put a question to the Commission asking if it would treat the peninsulas as equivalent to islands. Earlier it had claimed intimate knowledge of the west of Scotland. It still have not replied to that. I ask it to reply as a matter of urgency."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFCO (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Scottish National Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"MacCormick (Verts/ALE )."1

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