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I thoroughly agree with the content of this report. I primarily support the rapporteur’s statement that Community legislation is too profuse, too complex and too equivocal and that legislative inflation weakens the rule of law and alienates citizens from their institutions. In the specific field of the extremely important principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, I think that the Annual Commission Report – Better Lawmaking – could make a decisive contribution, bearing out the practical experience of those who deal every day with these principles on the ground, thereby enabling their aim and scope to be genuinely improved. I think that this is the justification for this report, because simply listing the Commission’s actions does not constitute a report on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. Under the principle of subsidiarity, I welcome giving national parliaments a monitoring role through an early-warning system, the obligation on the Commission and the European Union to give reasons justifying every proposal and, in general, all measures that favour greater transparency in invoking and applying the principle. Furthermore, and in this approach of genuine subsidiarity, a while ago, I advocated in this House, the creation of a Committee on Subsidiarity in the European Parliament, to improve our ...
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