Translation of "Trottoir mécanique à deux sens de marche " (French → English) :

– (FR) Mr President, Commissioner, first of all I should like to pay tribute to the sense of compromise shown by our two rapporteurs, Mr Grosch and Mrs Ţicău, since this is a difficult subject in the sense that, yes, we do want the single market, but the public and company directors do not understand that having the single market at times means that some of them will have to fail, that the economy will have to go into recession and that jobs will have to go.

34. Welcomes the Commission's intention to ensure a better communicated Internal Market, and holds the view that the two Scoreboards are important steps in that direction;

8. Points out that many Mediterranean countries have expressed the wish to preserve their trade preferences vis-à-vis the Community market; considers that maintaining this preferential and asymmetric system is incompatible with a general liberalisation of the agriculture sector; emphasises, furthermore, that it is in the mutual interest of all Mediterranean countries to preserve certain tools with which to manage supply on their respective markets; calls accordingly on the Commission and the representatives of the SEMC to seek in the course of the multilateral trade negotiations being conducted within the World Trade Organisation (WTO) any ...[+++] possible means (including the classification of milk, fruit and vegetables as sensitive products) of limiting market imbalances and also any possible asymmetry and distortion of competition between the agricultural markets in the SEMC and those in the EU which might cause farmers in either group of countries to suffer loss;

It remained unclear, however, as to whether this would then mean opening up markets on both sides or only in one direction.

The commitments will also ensure that two independent suppliers of electrical propulsion (Kiepe and ELIN) remain active in both markets, which will allow for future consortia with Stadler and other non-integrated mechanical suppliers.

The Commission found that the two channels concerned, which broadcast throughout Europe, in English, via satellite and cable, both had relatively small shares whether the relevant geographic market was taken as national or wider in scope, and by various possible alternative product market definitions, such as free-access television broadcasting or broadcast of news programmes.