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". – Mr President, I am glad to see the tradition of speaking to the Commissioner is still alive and well. I am particularly pleased with the comments she has made. I hope that Parliament’s amendments will be adopted tomorrow as I am sure they will be, despite the elements in this Parliament which do not seem to want to join in and that we will have an interesting discussion with the Council. I wonder if the Commissioner would join me in deploring the way in which this report has been treated, with parts – notably the ladders – being isolated and suggestions made – by Mr Bushill-Matthews for one – that this is something that is futile if not childish.
Commissioner, I hope you will agree that this is a Treaty obligation for us all to look at. The basis is Article 138, which was previously Article 118a – and if I am right, we must look into the costs – administrative and otherwise – for small-to-medium-sized businesses, as laid down in the Treaty already. This is a small-to-medium-sized-business-friendly piece of legislation, but more importantly it is friendly to the workers who have to use this equipment. That is why the legislation is there and is to be applied across the European Union. If only Mr Bushill-Matthews had been here when I first started, he would have heard some of the arguments which I wish to place before this House as to why it is important to have EU legislation.
It is a great problem when you do not hear the arguments, but you merely come in with your own loaded thoughts. Indeed, it is a great shame, and I hope that Mrs Villiers will come back some time and perhaps pay a visit to our committee so she can hear some of the debate about this report as well – because I noticed that she disappeared soon after she made her point – maybe we will read about that in the papers as well.
Finally, I would like to say to Mr Bushill-Matthews, who is here, that the journalist on the
to which you sent your press releases on this report, rang me back and asked me about a specific amendment that contained your phraseology and your words, which he said was the nonsense part of this whole directive. Perhaps you can correct him instead of correcting us."@en1
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