Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-12-Speech-4-110"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Implementation of Directive 73/239/EEC by the United Kingdom between 1978 and 2001 (Lloyd's)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040212.6.4-110"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-12-Speech-4-1112
lpv:speaker	lp:Diana Wallis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I should like to thank the Commissioner for his very careful reply, which he relates very much to this particular question, the issue of Lloyd's. I should like to think of this in terms of two very general principles: firstly, the implementation of legislation by Member States and action by the Commission to ensure that that happens; secondly, the entitlement to information between Parliament and the Commission during such enforcement measures. I should also like to apply some common sense to those two principles. Looking with common sense at how this particular matter proceeded, one cannot but feel that something is not quite right, that there is a period of 20 years when nothing seems to happen and no implementation takes place. I am sorry, Commissioner, that your colleague, Commissioner Bolkestein is not here. I know that he shares our deep concern about implementation of legislation by Member States and making sure that it happens effectively so that the internal market, of which we are all so proud, works properly. However, if it takes a Member State over 20 years to implement a directive, and a Member State can carry on without doing that for such a long period of time, then common sense tells us that something is not right. I am greatly concerned – as I am sure others are – about the message that this sends out to acceding states on the eve of enlargement concerning the way we conduct our business and the way we expect Member States to adhere to Community law. It is all very well to say that there is no past incompatibility. As a lawyer, that sounds to me like a very nice, lawyer's answer. What we are looking for here are common sense answers and an answer to the question as to why a Member State can be so long in default and why it is that we, as Parliament, cannot get a simple answer to a simple question about that."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-09-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (2003-03-06--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-05-08--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "Wallis (ELDR )."1

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