36. Highlights the importance of reviewing the Dual Use Regulation, in particular to account for the export of surveillance technologies which in the past have aided human rights repression, and to unblock the reform of trade defence instruments and the international procurement instrument;

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specify arrangements under which CTPs authorised under Article 59 may continue to operate a consolidated tape where the empowerment provided for in point (b) of this paragraph is not used or, where no entity is appointed through the public procurement, until such time as a new public procurement is completed and a commercial entity is appointed to operate a consolidated tape.

I therefore agree with the proposals included in this report, as they aim to reassure the European public with regard to the production and circulation of dual-use materials, and to make the current arrangements more transparent and democratic.

1. Renews the call to create the conditions required to develop a competitive European defence equipment industry; proposes, with a view to pursuing a harmonised European approach, that obstacles to the transfer of defence equipment within the Community be removed, the public procurement rules applying to defence equipment harmonised, the defence industry opened to more competition, and export controls regulated uniformly throughout the EU and enforced effectively where dual-use goods are concerned; considers that budgetary regulations should be drawn up in keeping with the measures specified above; encourages the promotion of standar ...[+++]disation and interoperability of security systems and the effective implementation of export controls for dual-use goods; is convinced that this means that Article 296 EC should be modified such that free competition between industrial arms companies in the EU can no longer be distorted, and artificial duplication and uneconomical spending can be avoided;

On account of this obligation, the importance of providing public services and the well being of the user are being subordinated to attempts to cut down on labour costs.