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"Mr President, Mr Wuermeling has done a first-class job on this report. In presenting a report calling for simpler and clearer lawmaking he certainly had to match his expectations of that with the quality of the work he produced himself. The report is a model of concise and clear drafting and I hope colleagues will take that very seriously indeed.
I want to reinforce the points that have been made about subsidiarity but I want to put them in the broader frame of the reform of the European Commission. It is quite clear from all the communications we have seen, and particularly the importance that the Commission is rightly attaching to matching competences with resources, that the Commission itself realises that it has to produce less legislation and that it has to think about putting more resources into enforcing what it has already done.
Arguably we have too much law in place now that is improperly enforced. If we have law in place that is not being properly enforced, it is not effective at all. We need to look at that as part of the review that is called for here. I attach considerable importance to this point and I particularly welcome the emphasis that Mr Wuermeling has given to aspects of scrutiny by national parliaments.
One major problem in the European Union, and this particularly impacts on this committee from the internal market viewpoint, is what has now become widely called the gold-plating of European Union legislation.
It is not enough for the Commission simply to look at transpositions into national law. It has to look at what national parliaments have done with that legislation. There are many examples where we see that a comparatively simple piece of simple market legislation – a common standard, a single principle – has become over-complex, over-enforced at national level and has caused considerable difficulties. I would ask the Commission to have a serious look at this problem of gold-plating. Let us take, shall we say, six clear examples and look at how they have been transposed in detail, how they operate within the countries, how they are being enforced and make a really clear and transparent assessment of the effectiveness of the legislation, because if legislation is not effective, then we have all wasted our time."@en1
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