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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, during last year's debate on the employment package, Parliament made a clear demand for procedures to be streamlined. The Barcelona Council tabled the same demand. So, it seems to me that this communication responds to the demands of both Parliament and the Council for more up-to-date procedures.
As Mr Solbes Mira quite rightly said, this is not simply a technical arrangement. It is not simply better timing. There really is an ambitious political objective in terms of better defined policies, better governance and greater efficiency. We are forging ahead with modernisation, with this new common procedure, we are applying our experience from ten years of economic guidelines since Maastricht, five years of the Employment Strategy in action and, of course, the whole Lisbon framework, and that is important.
I should like to make a few comments on the European Employment Strategy in particular. First, both strategies will clearly be strengthened and will have a higher profile within the Lisbon framework. Secondly, we now have a medium-term time frame and that is important. Rather than annual guidelines or annual recommendations, we have a medium-term time frame. We aim to issue new guidelines up to 2010, with a mid-term review in 2006, as requested in Barcelona. So there will be a mid-term review, when we set objectives and guidelines, together with annual controls and annual cooperation in monitoring policies and it is this that will maintain the momentum of the strategy. The third point is that this exercise has a clear objective: to achieve greater cohesion between the two policies. Obviously there is a division of roles between the two policies. The economic guidelines provide the general framework, the framework within which the employment guidelines move, but it is the employment guidelines that define the more detailed framework and objectives and propose individual strategies.
My next point concerns better governance of economic and social policies, which is also one of the items on the agenda of the Convention set up to revise the Treaty. What we want to show is that, while we respect the autonomy of each policy as defined in the Treaty, we also have the facility to set a single economic framework for the Union. I think that, as far as the European Parliament is concerned, things will be much clearer and much more transparent because both dossiers will take account of all the basic aspects of economic and structural policy in practice, at a given time and in a coordinated manner. I should also like to assure you that our efficient consultations with Parliament will continue; they have merely been moved from the autumn to the spring. Our aim is to ensure that, with this new framework, we can cooperate efficiently with Parliament."@en1
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