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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is already rather late, and my fellow Members have already made many good points. First of all, therefore, I should like to join in thanking the rapporteur, and wish to offer her my sincere congratulations on the difficult work she has done. As deputy coordinator, I believe that this represents an important step.
Tomorrow’s vote is the result of an informal trialogue aimed at bringing the issue of the financing of European standardisation to a successful conclusion at first reading. I believe that the compromise that the rapporteur has achieved is a respectable one. In spite of all the positive aspects pointed out here by various Members, however, I would venture to make a criticism, an objection.
Frequent experience has shown that the economy, which is the main beneficiary from the harmonisation of the EU internal market, participates in these rules, and indisputably has urgent need of them, and therefore we MEPs must support this process. Yet experience has also shown that many citizens – and many mayors or other economic actors – are not seeing these rules the way they were intended. There are some rules, such as the pre-standard on the prevention of crime by urban planning and building design, to which mayors are objecting – not entirely unjustifiably, in my opinion.
That was why I welcomed the rapporteur’s original proposal for the costs of standardisation to be oriented to a much greater extent towards the costs actually incurred. Owing to past experience, however, this proposal could not be pushed through in the agreement with the Council and the Commission. Nevertheless, I believe that it is perfectly appropriate for us MEPs to ensure that standardisation really has parliamentary legitimacy where the public is affected, and can also really be achieved by self-administration where only economic actors are concerned. In this respect, I hope that we can make progress with these issues, too, within the framework of the Internal Market Strategy – with which not only the Commission but undoubtedly Parliament, too, will be concerned in the coming months."@en1
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