Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-05-19-Speech-1-976"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-05-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU consumer policy strategy 2007-2013 (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080519.27.1-976"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-05-19-Speech-1-9752
lpv:speaker	lp:Vincent Peillon2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AGRI (2007-11-28--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to see that the European Commission has made the protection of Europe’s consumers one of its priorities with its proposed EU Consumer Policy strategy for 2007-2013. I should also like to thank my Finnish Socialist colleague Lasse Lehtinen for his excellent work and the significant contributions he makes in his report. I welcome his vision of a horizontal approach at European level, for it is essential that the interests of consumers should be taken into account in all the Union’s policies. At the same time I support his wish to give consumer associations a greater role in drafting European rules, and his proposal to improve protection for the most vulnerable consumers, particularly young and elderly people, through more information campaigns aimed specifically at them. I also strongly support the introduction of a European system of collective redress that would enable consumers in different Member States to take their complaints jointly to the courts and seek redress, while avoiding the pitfalls of the US model. So I hope that, despite opposition on the conservative side, this House will vote in favour of a European ‘class action’ system."@en1

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