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"Mr President, I wish to add my support for agreement at second reading on this very important directive. I also want to thank Mrs Bresso for leading that negotiating process, together with all the shadow rapporteurs, in particular my colleague, Mrs Thyssen, who led for our side on this.
This proposal, as many Members have already said, will be very good for consumers. It will also be very good for thousands of businesses that want to trade fairly and provide high standards, because those companies are in many cases outraged when they see fraudsters perpetrating scams on unsuspecting consumers. They want them dealt with as much as anybody else. Unfortunately, ingenious tricksters keep finding ways to take money off unsuspecting consumers.
It is interesting that since we started work on this we have already added a number of new provisions to this annex. One of the things we must have – and this is addressed to the Commission – is a mechanism to keep absolutely on top of this. We must also ensure that we keep adding to the blacklist when we find that people are finding ways around the rules. We want consumers to have confidence that they can exercise their rights in the internal market.
That leads me to the second point: as we are clearly going to approve this overwhelmingly tomorrow, it is now important to tell the Commissioner that we want to see this transposed as quickly and effectively as possible. Under its 'better regulation' proposals, the Commission has new mechanisms to coordinate and push through transposition as quickly as possible. We expect the Commission to do that and also to put pressure on those Member States that, perhaps, are not quite as vigilant as they should be or are not supporting the consumer protection bodies with the resources required. A part of our overall work in this committee is to support consumers. It is an important flanking measure to other things we are working on.
I must also say, in conclusion, that it is an essential foundation for what I know will be a very successful directive on the internal market for services, which I am confident this House will adopt very soon."@en1
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