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It is absolutely essential that Community legislation be simplified and made clearer, in order to make it more accessible to the ordinary citizen and easier for everyone to read. Objectives such as these will be difficult to meet if we retain, on the same issue, a spread of provisions, many of which are substantially amended.
The aim of the Commission proposal before us – one which I naturally endorse – is to codify the first Council directive of 23 July 1962, on establishing common rules for certain types of carriage of goods by road, and the other acts that have been modified, retaining the content in its entirety and confining itself to combining them with the formal amendments required by the codification process itself.
This is in line with the Commission’s decision of 1 April 1987 to call on its services to set about codifying all legislative acts once they have undergone ten amendments, in order to ensure that Community decisions are clear and comprehensible. It also tallies with the Presidency conclusions of the Edinburgh European Council of December 1992, which reaffirmed the importance of codification.
I voted in favour of this report, which recommends that this proposal be adopted."@en1
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