Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-22-Speech-2-267"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:A new Community health and safety at work strategy 2002-20062
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021022.10.2-267"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-22-Speech-2-2682
lpv:speaker	lp:Elizabeth Lynne2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, although I welcome some of the points in Mr Hughes' report, especially the simplification of existing Community legislation and better monitoring, I am very unhappy that my amendments on comprehensive impact assessments did not pass in committee. My group agreed that I should table the amendments again in plenary but, unfortunately, no other group was prepared to open up the process. Legislation should only be brought forward when we demonstrate that there is a clear need for it, rather than best practice or the exchange of best practice. We must first make sure that existing legislation in the same field is being implemented across the European Union. Secondly, as I have already said regarding comprehensive impact assessments, we must have an impact assessment for each Member State, taking into account the impact on industry, on business and on the workforce. Unfortunately, quite often the impact assessments coming forward from the Commission look more like explanatory statements to me rather than comprehensive impact assessments. Above all, in health and safety we need to have up-to-date scientific and medical evidence to demonstrate the need for such legislation. Take the example of the vibrations directive. I was given a lot of documents by the Commission. The ISO standards report, the only one that was really up to date, actually said that there was no quantitative link between whole body vibration and lower back pain, but still we brought legislation forward. I am pro-European but we bring forward more and more legislation without demonstrating the actual need for it. This brings the European Union into disrepute. Although we may need some of the legislation Mr Hughes has proposed in his report and which the Commission has proposed, without a guarantee of a proper comprehensive and independent impact assessment, the ELDR Group will have to abstain on the vote tomorrow."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Lynne (ELDR )."1

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