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The sub-text of Mrs Palacio Vallelersundi’s report is recognition of the deadlock between national governments, which fail to transpose Community law when it does not serve their interests, and companies, normally the principal beneficiaries of the single market, which have to be convinced of the benefits through information campaigns and ‘incentives’. In the light of the success of earlier campaigns on the euro, the results of these are still to be established. This is another illustration of the ‘soviet-style’ procedures of the Community institutions which are now trying to invent the new consumer and the new businessman, after the new citizen of the Ludford report.
So while the rapporteur supports companies, especially when faced with the difficulties SMEs encounter because of ‘administrative obstacles’ and complexities, I have considerable reservations about certain provisions in the final text. The report underlines the vital importance of making infringement procedures faster and more efficient and ‘welcomes the proposals to the Intergovernmental Conference’ along those lines. Because Community centralisation is failing to demonstrate its validity and its contribution, we are now forced to insist on repressive procedures, where cooperation would have made it possible to draw up flexible rules more easily acceptable to those involved.
Then, the Commission should, and I quote, ‘pay special attention to creating internal-market mindedness’ in national governments, ‘while monitoring national implementing measures’. When we know the political context surrounding officials in Community institutions, this desire to brainwash officials in our governments alarms me.
Finally, the report regrets that the advantage to businesses of treating the whole of the EU as a single market rather than as a collection of national markets is not always apparent to them. To remedy this lack of awareness which is additional to administrative obstacles and consumer behaviour, the report envisages ‘mass information campaigns similar to those conducted in the case of the euro and incentives to encourage the private sector not to treat partners from other Member States unfavourably’.
These points do not seem to undermine the confidence of this House in the chosen Community construction model. People are going to be made happy, whether they like it or not."@en1
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