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Political Memory: John PURVIS, MEP

General Data

• Born on 06 July 1938, St. Andrews (Fife)
• Country: United Kingdom
• Political Group: Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats (PPE-DE)
  Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

Contact

• Parlement européen
  Bâtiment Altiero Spinelli 14E107
  60, rue Wiertz, 1047 Bruxelles
  Tel.: +32 2 28 45 684/+32 2 28 47 684
  Fax: +32 2 28 49 684
• Parlement européen
  Bâtiment Louise Weiss T08069
  1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman - CS 91024, 67070 Strasbourg Cedex
  Tel.: +33 3 88 175 684/+33 3 88 177 684
  Fax: +33 3 88 179 684

• Email: john.purvis(at)europarl.europa.eu
• Page on European Parliament website: www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=729
• Site web: www.scottishtorymeps.org.uk

Functions in European Parliament

• Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (Vice-Chairman)
• Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (Member)
• Delegation for relations with Iran (Member)
• Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (Substitute)
• Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (Substitute)
• MA (Hons.), St Andrews University (1958-1962). Military service: second lieutenant, Scots Guards (1956-1958). Worked for First National City Bank: London, New York, Milan (1962-1969). Treasurer, Noble Grossart Ltd, Edinburgh (1969-1973). Managing Director and Chairman, Gilmerton Management Services Ltd, St Andrews (1973-1986). Various non-executive chairmanships, directorships and trusteeships (1973-). (Curriculum vitae)
• Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party: Chairman, Economic Affairs Committee (1986-1997); Vice-President (1988-1990). (Curriculum vitae)
• Member of the European Parliament (1979-1984 and since 1999). Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States (1982-1984); Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (since 2002). (Curriculum vitae)
• Scottish Member and Chairman of Scottish Committee, Independent Broadcasting Authority (1985-1989). Member, Scottish Advisory Committee on Telecoms (1990-1997). Company chairman/director in radio, paper and investment industries in the UK and elsewhere in Europe and the USA. Farmer and landowner in Scotland. Trustee, charitable foundation. (Curriculum vitae)
• CBE (1990). (Curriculum vitae)

Curriculum Vitae

• MA (Hons.), St Andrews University (1958-1962)
• Military service: second lieutenant, Scots Guards (1956-1958)
• Worked for First National City Bank: London, New York, Milan (1962-1969)
• Treasurer, Noble Grossart Ltd, Edinburgh (1969-1973)
• Managing Director and Chairman, Gilmerton Management Services Ltd, St Andrews (1973-1986)
• Various non-executive chairmanships, directorships and trusteeships (1973-)
• Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party: Chairman, Economic Affairs Committee (1986-1997)
• Vice-President (1988-1990)
• Member of the European Parliament (1979-1984 and since 1999)
• Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States (1982-1984)
• Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (since 2002)
• Scottish Member and Chairman of Scottish Committee, Independent Broadcasting Authority (1985-1989)
• Member, Scottish Advisory Committee on Telecoms (1990-1997)
• Company chairman/director in radio, paper and investment industries in the UK and elsewhere in Europe and the USA
• Farmer and landowner in Scotland
• Trustee, charitable foundation
• CBE (1990)

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Votes

• 10/04/2008 - Rapport Bono on cultural industries in Europe 7/20
• 12/10/2006 - Resolutions on European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) 1/20
• 24/09/2003 - Directive on patentability of "computer-implemented inventions" (software patents) 16/20

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Opinions

Sources

• Written questions at European Parliament
• Proposals for a resolution at European Parliament
• Reports at European Parliament
• Opinions at European Parliament
• Speeches in plenary at European Parliament
• Written declarations in European Parliament
• Wikipedia
• Google

Positions

Thanks to improve this part with opinions from John PURVIS about Squaring the Net concerned issues (see page Help:Political_Memory to know how to do it).

• 10/07/2008 Reply to campaign concerning vote on IMCO & ITRE of Telecoms package

John Purvis and Struan Stevenson

Members of the European Parliament for Scotland

We wanted to update you following the vote on 7 July in the Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, which produced a very large majority in favour of a series of amendments that significantly enhance users´ rights in electronic communications. Some of the key points are summarised below:

* Users will now be informed by operators, before contracts are concluded, about any restrictions on access to services (such as Skype).

* Market demand and competition between operators will decide whether they see any point in restricting access. The IMCO vote does not give governments new powers to decide that, or to make applications illegal.

* Where handsets or other terminal equipment are included free, or at a subsidised price, users must be informed of the cost of terminating their agreement early.

* Number porting (the process of keeping a number when switching networks) will now take one day (while it has previously taken up to one month). However, there are also provisions in case of slamming (when a consumer is switched to another network without their consent) which will allow NRAs to intervene in such cases.

* Promotion of the European 112 emergency call number across the EU, and measures to speed up the availability of mobile caller location when emergency calls are made. This is complementary to existing national emergency numbers.

* Disabled users will have equivalent access to communications with special terminal equipment for their needs.

* The need to keep the Internet open by empowering regulators to intervene if a carrier discriminated against a particular service provider - for example, by blocking or slowing traffic.

* Regulators would be given enabling powers to allow standardised public service messages to be delivered to users. These service messages could include security protection advice, and advice on harmful or unlawful uses of the Internet, and their potential consequences. The information would be sent to all users, not to targeted individuals and not based on individual usage. Copyright infringement is just one of the areas that might be covered, but it will be up to public authorities to supply the information.

* Under Parliament's rules, the Committee also accepted, without a vote, a set of amendments from the Civil Liberties Committee on data protection. These include significant new requirements for operators to inform subscribers in the event of any breach of their personal data through electronic networks

The level of cross party support confirms that MEPs totally reject the claims that these amendments are intended to reduce consumer choice and undermine individual freedom. In particular, the Directive contains no provisions on Copyright Law enforcement, not does it refer, in any way, to the French Government's proposed enforcement agreement.

Members of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee were highly critical of lobbyists who had completely misrepresented the objectives of the legislation. Nevertheless, they welcome further constructive suggestions for improvements to ensure that the text has no "unintended consequences" that infringe consumer rights. MEPs will examine the detailed drafting of all amendments before the final approval by Parliament in September.

A detailed examination of the points referred to in the "Quadrature" mailing can be found below. We also enclose the post-vote Conservative Press release by Malcolm Harbour, for your interest.

The "detailed examination of the points referred to in the Quadrature mailing" seems to be the same as the [/wiki/ColmBurke/en Colm BURKE's reply]