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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have listened to this debate with great interest. The Council fully understands the frustration apparent in many of the speeches in this debate. I can understand why you think that the work on Regulation 1408 which has taken place since the Finnish Presidency in 1999 has seemed extremely long drawn out. I would nonetheless repeat what I said in my introduction.
This is technically a complicated issue and it has been necessary to take the time to test the Council’s reactions and to provide the Council and the Commission with the opportunity to consider, reflect and create a foundation for future negotiations.
However, we Swedes have high hopes that, in the next six months, the Swedish Presidency will be able to complete this technical work. If we succeed, and we are hopeful that we will, this will allow the forthcoming Belgian Presidency to move on to a strategic discussion on the proposal to simplify and modernise Regulation No 1408. Both the Swedish Presidency and the forthcoming Belgian Presidency want to break the vicious circle in which the Council has found itself on this issue. We believe this is extremely important. We hope to be able to agree on a continued timetable for the work. The Council and the Commission may need a mandate in which the working method and approach are clearly stated – whether the proposal is to be divided up, whether certain sections are to be omitted entirely, whether we are to try to simplify the regulation further and if so, how, etc.
I am hopeful that we will not need to repeat this debate many more times and that the Council will be able to return with better news than I can provide in this debate.
Let me finally say the following in answer to Mrs van Lancker’s question on what the Swedish Presidency intends or would like to do to tackle the problems of discrimination. In this I will remove my Council hat and put on my national hat. In brief, as we see it, the only way to tackle these problems in the long term is to agree on qualified majority voting on Article 42. We did not succeed in Nice, but we do not intend to give up."@en1
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