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Services of general interest - 29.10.2003
CEMR says 'no" to forced liberalisation of public services
No to compulsory competitive tendering of local and regional services ! That is the key message of CEMR's position paper on Services of General Interest, adopted by CEMR's Policy Committee on 29th October in Martina Franca, Italy. The paper is in response to a recent Commission Green Paper on Services of General Interest.
Secretary-General Jeremy Smith said : 'Whether or not to tender public services should be a matter of democratic choice for local and regional governments. Our members across Europe have differing views on tendering, but are united on this issue of democracy. We do not believe that European competition law should be used to force through liberalisation of local ...
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