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Could you give me the English version of:
 La pregunta es la siguiente: ¿qué requisitos debemos imponer eventualmente a un servicio gestionado por un monopolio? En esta cuestión, la mayoría de los Estados miembros han echado el freno. Me alegra comprobar que, en mi país, el nuevo gobierno finalmente ha hecho lo que tenía que hacer, algo que tenía que haber hecho mucho antes: los servicios postales y el gobierno belga están tomando medidas para garantizar que, para el año 2003, los servicios postales, al menos en parte, estarán preparados para afrontar la competencia.
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The question is, therefore: what are the demands that a monopoly or part of a service which is governed by a monopoly needs to meet?
Most Member States have been putting the brakes on, and I am pleased to note that, in my country, the new government has at long last completed something which should have been done a long time ago, and that the Belgian postal services and the Belgian government are now taking measures to ensure that the postal services are ready - at least partly ready - by 2003 to be able to stand up to the competition.