Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-29-Speech-3-074"
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"Mr President, the British Conservatives do not believe that the Commission's proposal should be diluted, postponed or reviewed. We support the liberalisation proposed by the Commission. We believe that in the UK consumers have paid too much for their cars for too long and this Parliament should not postpone the cheaper car prices which will be the result of a more competitive market. Parliament should remember that though we must be sensitive to the concerns of small businesses, every dealer who writes to us probably has 100 or 500 or 1000 customers, whose interests we must also consider in this difficult debate.
I believe that a ban on location clauses is essential to delivering a competitive framework in the EU car market. Without the ban on location clauses, we would see almost no change from the present position, because without that ban consumers would still have to travel to another country to use a non-domestic dealer. We believe that we will not see price reductions in the EU unless location clauses go and dealers are free to set up in different EU Member States.
If we want to protect dealers, we should be protecting them from anti-competitive practices by car-makers and unlawful and unjustified termination of their franchises by car-makers. We should not be protecting dealers from the market and from ordinary competitive pressures because that is to deny consumers the cheap car prices which they deserve, and which this Parliament should be prepared to deliver to them."@en1
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