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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, allow me first to congratulate rapporteur Mrs Handzlik on her very successful first report in the European Parliament and to thank the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection for its initiative to prepare this important report.
With the latest enlargement, 10 new states became members of the European Union as from 1 May 2004, but only in the legal meaning of the word. In reality, our countries will have to carry out a lot of work in various areas in order to gradually become fully fledged Member States. One of these areas is the transposition of directives and other Community acts to their national legal systems with a view to building a functioning, barrier-free common internal market.
The report gives a concise overview of the state of the transposition of European legislation in individual Member States. Although my country – Slovakia – often called the ‘central European tiger’ under the competent leadership of Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda – belongs among the EU Member States that do not have the best track record of the transposition of European legislation, economic reforms have enabled the country to make big strides in implementing the medium-term economic strategy. To eliminate the remaining obstacles in the internal market, it is absolutely necessary to consolidate and improve the European legislation. The Commission should start revising the existing Community legislation with a view to its simplification. I am firmly opposed to bureaucratic directives that regulate and prescribe everything. We should, in conformity with the subsidiarity principle, let the Member States do what they can do with greater flexibility and effectiveness.
On the other hand, we need the directives that have liberalising effects. Let us not be afraid to expediently adopt a new service directive, maybe similar to the one of Bolkenstein, that will breathe new life into the revised Lisbon strategy. I firmly believe this and I think so do many of you.
Thank you for your attention."@en1
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