Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-03-22-Speech-3-251"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-03-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European contract law and revision of the acquis (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060322.18.3-251"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-03-22-Speech-3-2522
lpv:speaker	lp:Diana Wallis2
lpv:spoken text	". Mr President, I welcome very much Mr Leinen’s report, so much so that my own political group will vote against any amendments to it. Despite all this agreement and it being so late in the evening, we are all of the opinion that it is essential to have a debate on this important report. In the opinion for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, we highlighted the fact that this is an exercise in better law-making. The CFR and the review of the can make a huge contribution to the better functioning of the internal market. However – and this was our central preoccupation – the compilation of the CFR is a political exercise: it involves political choices. Therefore, the European Parliament must be fully involved as a co-legislator. We all welcome the setting-up of the project group, which augurs well for good future cooperation with the Commission. However, we still have a concern that the Commission should present a coherent approach. That means that not only DG Sanco, but also DG Justice and DG Internal Market should be fully involved in the process. Above all, this project is of practical importance for the internal market, both consumers and businesses alike. In my own country – which is not known for its support of anything that might even start to resemble a European contract code – an independent survey by a big law firm highlighted the transactional costs of an incoherent contract law in the internal market. I believe this demonstrates what many of us have always felt: practical advances in EU civil law like this can assist to make Europe more popular we get it right. However, in order to do that we must have discussion and debate. This is not just a technical legal exercise, it is a political one. If we ever get to the stage of a European contract code, then we cannot risk that it suffers the same fate as the proposed Constitution last year. It has to have political support, and I hope that we, together, have put in place the appropriate mechanism to ensure that we achieve that result."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; IMCO (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; PETI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; JURI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-06-19)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2007-02-26)3 chair; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-09-04)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2007-09-04)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Diana Wallis (ALDE ),"1 "acquis"1 "draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection"1 "if"1

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