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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, I would like to say a few words on behalf of the legal policy experts in the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. I want to sum them up under four headings.
I am glad to see that your programme includes better regulation
and impact assessment, which could be summed up as the business of estimating the cost of compliance with laws. I would like to make it quite clear that our Committee attaches particular importance to the text of this agreement being taken seriously and to you not merely signing affirmations, like the one your predecessor signed in December 2003. That means that proper consultation processes have to be gone through, and there also – quite crucially – has to be sufficient transparency and, in contrast to what has often, unfortunately, happened with Commission proposals, a real impact assessment rather than one that can be said to do no more than help to justify the proposal. We have our own expectations in this respect and are addressing them to the new Commission.
Although I am glad you have addressed a number of aspects of the Company Law Action Plan that had already been put forward by the former Commission, I want to draw attention to two that we regard as important. One is the need for a proposal on the right to choose between the single-tier and two-tier systems of company law, and the second is that the ‘one share, one vote’ principle – which was the subject of very in-depth discussion during the previous legislative period – must be accepted.
Turning to intellectual property rights, we welcome the Commission’s intention to present a proposal on the regulation of rights management societies. At the same time, though, we ask it to examine the rightness or otherwise of its strategy to date in relation to the European patent, with a view to finding out whether there is the danger, in view of the current state of discussions in the Council, of what comes out at the other end being a monstrosity that small and medium-sized businesses cannot afford. Perhaps we should wait for the Constitution and then produce a new proposal on a new legal basis and with new majorities, out of which something decent will emerge.
Last but not least comes something of which I ask you not to lose sight. I believe that the most important proposal for the making of ‘soft law’ in the term of this Parliament will be the harmonisation of civil law. Groups of professors are currently working on a frame of reference for this, which will shape European civil law for over a century to come. I would ask you, Mr President of the Commission, to bear that, too, in mind."@en1
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