Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-14-Speech-4-060"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-06-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010614.3.4-060"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-06-14-Speech-4-0612
lpv:speaker	lp:Lennart Sacrédeus2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Detailed regulation is not the right way. Consequently, it cannot be the task of the EU or the European Parliament to establish rules on the gradient of steps, how they are placed in relation to buildings or the fact that they must not rest on a slippery surface. However correct and well-intentioned this may be, it cannot fall within the competence of European politics. The European Parliament must effect this demarcation by showing restraint in what it applies itself to and seeks to have decision-making competence over. The reasonable solution would have been a directive under which the Member States have a duty to take appropriate and sufficient measures to ensure a certain level of safety in the workplace. A common market should have certain minimum rules and common aims in order to achieve better health and safety at work. However, it is reprehensible to regulate in detail at EU level how these aims are to be achieved. We Swedish Christian Democrats see it as a high priority task to work for a clearer division of competence between the EU and the Member States. The EU’s legislation must be kept free of detailed regulations, and new legislation must take the principle of subsidiarity into consideration. EU directives should essentially aim to establish goals, not to rule on details and describe the way to achieve those goals. Let the Member States themselves decide how rules and regulations on workers’ health and safety are to be elaborated so that the required aims of the directive are achieved in the best possible way. Certainly, European parliamentarians – like national politicians – are expected to master a number of subject areas and to relate to a wide spectrum of political issues. Rules on the anchoring of, and support system for, steps can hardly be amongst these, however."@en1

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