Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-02-Speech-2-166"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Coordination of social security systems2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030902.7.2-166"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-02-Speech-2-1672
lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Bushill-matthews2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I also commend the rapporteur, who has approached this complicated and important brief with great conviction and enthusiasm. The principle of simplifying and modernising social security rules to make them more efficient and user-friendly certainly deserves support. However, although I am sympathetic to a number of the points she raises, in certain respects I suggest that her proposals go too far. I am against Amendment Nos 1, 44 and 45, as they include references to taxation. I hear what various colleagues have said on this subject and particularly welcome the comments made by the rapporteur herself, that this regulation might not be the right place to address that. I agree with that point. Regulation 1408/71 is about coordinating social security, which derives its legal base from Article 42, which is not concerned with taxation at all. I can understand why some colleagues would wish to extend the scope of this regulation into the field of tax, but this is not a Community competence and should not become one by the back door or indeed the front door. If these amendments are passed I would hope that the Commission might still reject them. I invite the Commissioner to reflect further on this point. I am also against Amendment Nos 2 and 43 concerning payment of unemployment benefits, both of which only just scraped through in committee. The rules in Regulation 1408 must provide a balance between encouragement of labour mobility and avoidance of abuse. The term 'family reason' in the amendment is, in my view, too vague. EU citizens do and should have the right to seek employment in any Member State. For them to seek unemployment benefit in a Member State without having worked there and for the EU to endow them with rights to benefit, irrespective of individual Member State rules is just not reasonable. I understand the problem but this is not the solution. I shall be recommending support for many of the rapporteur's other amendments, but for the reasons I have mentioned above, I cannot recommend approval of her overall report."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bushill-Matthews (PPE-DE )."1

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