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". – Mr President, I find myself with the unexpected privilege this evening of speaking second in this debate. I speak on behalf of Mr Gargani, the chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs, in whose name our opinion stands. That is due to the chivalry of my colleague, Mr Koukiadis, who is here tonight and who is the original draftsman of the opinion. He tried in vain to persuade our committee to support the thrust of the Commission proposals. By a convincing majority the Committee on Legal Affairs voted in a series of sensible modifications that would have blunted some of the harm that this directive, if it is not changed, is going to do to the economy and employment throughout the European Union. I thank Mr Koukiadis for doing the decent thing and laying down his report.
As the second speaker, I want to pay tribute to Mrs van den Burg. I have not had the pleasure of working with her before. She has worked in a very open-handed and friendly way. As she said, she has taken advice from a lot of people. Unfortunately, she has not listened to that advice. I am pleased that a number of other groups have supported the thrust of our amendments and I thank members of my own political family for going along with some of our ideas.
The problem is that, as amended, the proposal from the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs does not achieve the sort of flexibility that its advocates, the Commission and the rapporteur, were claiming. It has become more intrusive – there is more regulation. My concern about this report is that it fails to accept that high-quality temporary work, delivered by a caring and well-run agency, is not just a second best for employment.
I wish to conclude by thanking the Committee on Employment for accepting one of my amendments which states: 'Member States shall transpose these provisions in a manner consistent with promoting job creation and making temporary agency work more attractive, recognising the different circumstances pertaining to their own territory'. If you had achieved that, I would have been delighted to support the directive."@en1
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