Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-037"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Competition between postal services2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.1.3-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Luigi Cocilovo2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3,3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Partito popolare italiano (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to add my voice to those who have expressed genuine congratulations to Mr Ferber on his work rather than merely going through the motions. His task was made difficult by the complexity of the subject and further complicated by the limits of the Commission's proposal and the delays it suffered. These limits and delays also contributed to a debate in which the ends are often confused with the means. We all agree on the fact that we need a high quality service with the lowest possible tariffs for the consumer. It appears that we all agree – and this is my personal opinion – that the lever of competition and of a progressive, gradual liberalisation is also useful for this purpose, but that it is not the end: it is the means to the end. If we think that we can put liberalisation forward as the solution to all the problems, then we are wrong, also because it would be a mistake in this sector not to recognise the need, which exists and which cannot be denied, for a universal service and for the guarantee that running the services will also provide the necessary means to cover the additional costs of the universal service. The questions that we should therefore be asking are rather: how great a monopoly is necessary in order to guarantee the provision of these means? We therefore need to have access to the studies and analyses, which differ from State to State and from country to country in order to guarantee the achievement of this objective. How can we make it possible for the services and industrial management, inside as well as outside the reserved area, to restore quality in order to reduce the reserved area necessary to guarantee those means? This will mean removing the definition of special services which, paradoxically, would prevent the operator of the reserved area from upgrading its services. I hope that, in future, the Commission will present to us studies and more comprehensive proposals as alternatives to those which have thus far constrained and limited our debate. I will back unconditionally not the compromise, but Mr Ferber's recommendations, for I feel that they are the only recommendations possible under the current conditions."@en1

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