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"Mr President, the Lisbon Strategy also means that we should prune unnecessary and ineffectual legislation and not increase bureaucracy. European port services are already very competitive currently, both in terms of quality and charges.
This does not represent a conflict between labour and capital because port owners, users and workers in different European countries regard the proposal as harmful, and not of any use. Competition for competition’s sake should be rejected and there needs to be greater focus on quality and safety.
This directive will definitely not increase competition: on the contrary, it may even harm it. For example, the authorisation system will increase bureaucracy. An ILO Convention guarantees to give registered professional port workers priority for this kind of work, and in Finland this is reinforced in a collective bargaining agreement. The key factor is safety: would it be in the interests of health and safety at work if, after a hard day’s work, seafarers had to attend to the handling of yet another load in a foreign port?"@en1
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