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"In a common market and a cooperative European enterprise based upon common values that put people’s best interests first, it is only fair and right to require certain minimum standards for workers’ safety and health. As Christian Democrats, we therefore support the principles behind Mr Skinner’s report, but we cannot accept the detailed regulation at EU level which is the result.
Directives ought essentially to be aimed at establishing goals, not at regulating the details and describing the path to the goal. Requiring at European level that employers should take necessary measures to guarantee workers’ safety is only reasonable. However, it is unreasonable to regulate in detail at EU level how such safety is to be achieved. It is high time we took the subsidiarity principle seriously and allowed detailed regulations to be adopted at the lowest effective level. Allow the Member States themselves to decide the best way of framing the rules so that the directive’s required objectives are met. In certain countries, this can be done by means of national laws. In others, agreements concluded between the two sides of industry can be envisaged.
Against this background, we have chosen, as Swedish Christian Democrats, to vote against the report."@en1
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