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"Mr President, in the previous debate in September last year I confirmed that health and safety was an important issue, and I commended the rapporteur on the thought that he had put into his work. I am delighted to see that he has finally arrived here so that he can hear me say that yet again.
My complaint was then, and still is now, that this was a matter best left to Member States or indeed to local authorities – a point already made most eloquently by my colleague, Mr Jensen, a few moments ago.
When the original Commission proposal on this subject was published, it said: "The difficulties of implementing the provisions on the ground should not be underestimated in the case of SMEs". Despite this comment the rapporteur put forward even more detailed amendments and then blithely stated in the September debate: "This is a small- to medium-sized business-friendly piece of legislation".
Coming straight after the report of Mr Hughes, earlier today, suggesting a number of amendments to the proposed extension of the working time directive to mobile workers, one thing is very clear. The people who believe that the EU should legislate in the finest detail, the people who are piling on more burdens on business without even understanding that is what they are doing, are not some unelected Brussels bureaucrats, they are Britain's very own Labour MEPs. I now understand what Tony Blair means by Labour leading in Europe. When it comes to extra red tape British Labour MEPs are way out in front."@en1
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