Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-11-Speech-1-076"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Application of international accounting standards2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20020311.6.1-076"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-11-Speech-1-0772
lpv:speaker	lp:Marianne Thyssen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams (2001-10-01--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, if, in the plenary sitting, our fellow MEPs follow our vote in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, and adopt this proposal practically unanimously, and if all others stand by their agreements, I believe that we can conclude this proposal at first reading, which is nothing short of a small miracle. There were many bottlenecks, most of which, fortunately, we managed to resolve. For example, we managed to arrange for the approved standards to be translated into each of the official languages and to be published. The proposal was totally unacceptable on this score. If we can put this right, this will constitute a huge step forward. In addition, as Lord Inglewood has already mentioned, thanks to various other amendments, we also managed to delineate, and better stipulate, the way in which comitology was to be applied. Time constraints prevent me from elaborating upon other improvements, but I concur with what the rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market has said in this connection. I would like to confine myself to asking the Commission the following. Small and medium-sized businesses do not yet know whether, and when, their national governments will extend the scope of this Regulation to include them. They feel a little neglected. However, I am of the view that it is certainly not a pointless exercise, immediately following the Council’s approval, to devote attention, in an organised manner, to the implications of the various options which the Member States can take by applying Article 5 and thus making an attempt to achieve coordination. In the absence of the harmonisation of taxation legislation, it is certainly useful, in my view, to enter into consultation about the new relationship, which is to be established in various Member States, between yearly accounts law, company law and tax law and to find out whether some of these issues could be coordinated at European level. Could the Commission tell me whether it intends, with these issues in mind, to set up an SME consultation, and to start a debate to find out whether European initiatives are necessary? Secondly, I should like to appeal to the Commission to ensure that, if accountancy law is to be changed, this is done in such a way as to take the interests of the SMEs into consideration in an appropriate manner."@en1

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