Det er i den forbindelse vigtigt, at Europa-Parlamentet sikrer, at den frie og fair konkurrence også virkelig forbliver fri og fair, og at der er mulighed for, også i Europa-Parlamentet, at se nærmere på visse sager, når dette findes påkrævet, hvad enten det så drejer sig om Microsoft, Rhodia-Rhône-Poulenc eller Ryanair-Charleroi.
It is therefore perfectly legitimate and extremely important to defend competition policy against all those forces that, in various ways, wish to introduce protectionism. As is also apparent from the report we are debating, there are a couple of tasks in this connection in which the Commission has an especially important role.