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"Mr President, if we are to succeed in a competitive world, we must embrace the benefits of the digital revolution. The sharing economy brings huge opportunities and platforms which enable economic growth and help us to address societal issues and even to help solve environmental problems. Yes, there are changes. Traditional distinctions between businesses and consumers and between market incumbents and new entrants are evolving and mutating. This brings new challenges, but any rules we set must help underpin the digital economy, not undermine it. We should work with existing rules where possible, address the risks and not put a handbrake on the innovators or add more costs.
Most of Parliament’s report follows this positive tone, which I support. Unfortunately, some of the Commission’s recent actions are not quite so sensible. Their proposal for digital purchases creates a two—tier structure between online and offline sales and, just at a time when we wanted to build consumer trust, this risks creating confusion.
Data is key. We do need clear rules and we need to be able to harness the benefits from big data, whilst also respecting privacy. But I am a bit concerned about the impact of our new regulation on small businesses and I know that late—night, last—minute rushed negotiations are not the way to achieve clear, coherent legislation. Our single market has 500 million consumers in 28 countries. They want to be able to trade online with companies all across the world. The digital world is a borderless world. We need to work together across Europe and across the world as well. Protectionism will not work."@en1
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