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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, since the mid-1980s, European standardisation has made it possible to achieve both the free movement of industrial products in the European Community and a high degree of protection for consumers and workers.
European standardisation complements key European policy objectives by establishing a consensus between economic operators, and has now managed to establish itself in approximately 20 industry sectors. This has considerably simplified the process of making goods and services on the internal market both comparable and compatible, and so the Commission’s financial support and continuing development of European standardisation warrants our support.
The catalogue of the three European standardisation bodies, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, now numbers more than 15 000 standards and other European specifications. This standardisation work has often rendered detailed Community legislation in the areas concerned superfluous, and it is sometimes possible to avoid legislation altogether.
For this reason, standardisation should be seen as an integral part of the continuing efforts towards better lawmaking and thus as part of a policy for growth and employment. In addition to the internal market aspect, European standardisation has the potential to support a whole range of Community policy measures capable of increasing the competitiveness of European enterprises.
This applies in particular to the fields of trade policy, transport, the environment and security of travel documents. In the field of research and technological development, clear common standards are needed as a source of technical expertise and as a market instrument. As with GSM and Galileo, which have already been mentioned by some fellow Members, it is thus possible to create a common trading language.
Despite this positive assessment, European standardisation and its institutional framework need to be improved and strengthened. The provisions of the new Financial Regulation require the creation of a clear, complete, detailed legal basis for European standardisation. I believe that the compromise proposal is capable of meeting these requirements. All the actors involved deserve thanks for their constructive cooperation, particularly the rapporteur, Mrs Pleštinská.
I shall be recommending that my group support the compromise reached, and am confident that agreement will be reached here as early as at first reading. Incidentally, I believe that we should be holding this debate, too, in Brussels and not in Strasbourg."@en1
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