Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-10-19-Speech-2-560"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-10-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Combating late payment in commercial transactions (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20101019.23.2-560"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-10-19-Speech-2-5612
lpv:speaker	lp:Sylvana Rapti2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Panhellenic Socialist Movement (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PETI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, my thanks to Mrs Weiler who has, I believe, given a helping hand to small and medium-sized enterprises throughout Europe and, hence, to Europe itself. At this critical time for the Union’s economy, a very serious and substantiated effort is being made to strengthen small and medium-sized enterprises. We all know that late payments are often the reason why these companies go bankrupt and jobs are lost. We have managed, with a great deal of difficulty, coupled with an even greater willingness to compromise so that jobs can be saved, to broker what may be a rather harsh, but which is certainly a necessary and fair agreement. I am sure you understand that, as a Greek, I personally take an even greater interest in and am especially concerned by this issue. The fact that Greece has agreed to payment margins which might be termed ‘narrow’ illustrates that we really are committed to turning round the situation in my country. The general 30-day payment rule means, in very simple terms, that our internal administrative auditing procedures for approving payments need to be changed. The 60-day exception, especially in sectors such as health, gives us a margin for handling chain payment procedures which are not always easy to audit. I want us to succeed – and I believe that we shall – because we owe it to workers and businessmen in Greece and to workers and businessmen in Europe. We must give small and medium-sized enterprises a chance to work with more incentives and to create healthy growth."@en1
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