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"Mr President, I should firstly like to refer to the almost herculean, not to mention highly commendable, work carried out by the rapporteur that has, above all, highlighted concerns for small and medium-sized companies that really form the focus of this reform.
The rapporteur has accused me, with his usual goodwill, of taking a more conservative and cautious stance on this issue. I do share his concerns, particularly the one he expressed in Amendment No 13. However, the problem we face involves a highly complex network in which laws from 15 different national origins are interwoven, and harmonising such laws is not something we can fully hope to achieve overnight.
I think that Mr Ferri’s concerns – some of which I do not personally share but have defended as a member of the Group of the European People’s Party – will come to the fore in the next few years and I should like to assure him of our support since he has been proved absolutely right on many of the issues he has defended in the past.
As regards the regulation, the first point I should like to make is that it derives from the 1993 Directive. It is high time this regulation came into being: we cannot delay it any longer. Its passage has been hindered, among other things, by a famous ruling of the Court of Justice which requires a change to the legal basis, and the complexities in the repair clause relating to the spare parts for complex products which the rapporteur mentioned.
I should therefore firstly like to urge the Commission – and I think I speak for both the European People’s Party and Parliament here – to do everything in its power to enable the Council to adopt this regulation and do so as soon as possible. This is because, I am proud to say, the amendments endorsed by Parliament – without wishing to undermine the rapporteur’s explanations – significantly improve the quality of the text.
All too often in Parliament we produce texts that are, for complex political reasons, both obscure and of reprehensible quality. Generally speaking, these amendments considerably enhance the text and I believe the Commission will adopt them without any problem.
One of the more important amendments in my view is Amendment No 16, which provides that, in certain cases, if the ground for invalidation of a design obtains only in respect of one or some Member States, invalidity shall be declared only in respect of such a Member State or States. This could lead to the paradoxical situation in which a Community design could be invalid in fourteen Member States and valid only in one.
I shall stop on that note, Mr President, as it is Friday, but I think the message is clear. I hope that the Commission adopts the majority of our amendments and proceeds to approve the regulation quickly so that it takes effect as soon as possible."@en1
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