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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I too would like to start by thanking Mr Maštálka for drafting this report. Health and safety at work are key objectives of European policy, and so I welcome the Commission communication and Parliament’s own-initiative report, both of which reflect the principle that the practical enforcement of standards of safety at work be subject to controls and that deficiencies in national implementation be reported.
Almost all the Member States have had infringement proceedings brought against them on the grounds of their failure to properly transpose the EU’s rules and regulations on health and safety at work. It is for that very reason that we must have as our main and initial objective compliance with, and monitoring of, the existing regulations even before the EU enacts new regulations and directives and imposes requirements. This is where adherence to the subsidiarity principle is a matter of priority.
As the Commissioner mentioned, responsibility for the enforcement of the health and safety at work regulations lies principally with the Member States, the regulatory bodies and the local social partners. These must be reinforced, as is indeed demanded by paragraph 12 of the report’s motion for a resolution.
If uniform conditions for competition are to be created, support for the new Member States is particularly important, for they have enormous potential for development. Nor is it tolerable that small and medium-sized enterprises should bear the brunt of this legislation. They create most of our new jobs and are our driving force as we journey towards Lisbon.
I have called in my Amendment 3 for the rationalisation of health and safety at work regulations, which will make them more efficient without thereby reducing the standard of protection that workers enjoy. We also need preventive strategies that can be communicated to people.
My Amendment 2 therefore calls for priority to be given to informing workers about preventive measures. What is most important to me is that Articles 27 and 29, which articulate generalised concerns about the proposed working time and services directives, should be deleted. They are too sweeping by far, and have nothing whatever to do with the title of the report. It is not for us to comment on other lawmaking processes or to attempt to use a non-legislative report to make legislation through the back door.
I have, in my capacity as shadow rapporteur for the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, tabled a number of amendments that improve the report, changing it in such a way that it achieves its actual objective, which is the uniform implementation and monitoring of existing provisions in all the Member States, whilst avoiding the creation of new bureaucracy. I therefore ask for your support."@en1
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