Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-01-15-Speech-1-062"
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"Mr President, it is clear that improving the quality of legislation is essential to the effective functioning of the internal market and to increasing the competitivity of the European economy. So we all welcome the SLIM initiative, but we must all share the rapporteur's reservations about how it has worked so far. There are surprisingly few areas which have been subject to the SLIM process and it is not always clear why those particular areas have been selected. We need, without a doubt, a fast-track procedure to turn SLIM opinions into legislative proposals, because it all seems to take rather a long time.
So we welcome the proposal to set up a special group within the Advisory Committee and we welcome the rapporteur's suggestion that it should have more resources. Clearly we also need greater synergy between the different Commission initiatives for improving legislation. We sometimes think that the different parts are operating in isolation. And, of course, we need greater cooperation between Member States and to overview best practice and seek to repeat best practice elsewhere.
And finally, it is crucial to ensure maximum involvement of the users of this legislation, particularly businesses, because they know best how this legislation affects them.
However, having said that, you could quite conceivably produce wonderful, simple legislation, yet it could be completely destroyed by the way that Member States implement it and enforce it. We must understand that there are three stages of legislation – formulation, implementation, including transposition, and enforcement – and we have to see the process as a whole. We often find the greatest problem is not the original legislation but how it has been transposed by Member States and the speed at which they have transposed it, how they have implemented it and how they have enforced it. I am often quite surprised by how relatively simple ideas are turned into the most complex nightmares as we go through that process.
As part of this on-going determination by the Commission to simplify legislation, I would like to see much greater cooperation between Member States and the Commission about the whole life of legislation and, particularly, involvement with the people who have prime responsibility for enforcing the legislation, who are often local and regional actors. So we must consider the whole process when we draft the original legislation. In some ways, you could argue, we should start at the end and look at how we enforce it and then work backwards as a way of getting simpler legislation.
But the SLIM process ought to go much further. We need a rolling programme which will cover all legislation and look at simplifying, consolidating, re-casting, sometimes repealing legislation. Sometimes we may need to go for the status quo, but we need a more dynamic process than we have had so far."@en1
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