Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-12-18-Speech-2-057"
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"Mr President, I would like to appeal for responsibility on the part of the Council, the Portuguese Presidency and the Commission on the Soil Directive that is before the Council.
After wide-ranging debates, Parliament approved a proposal that was much more open, less bureaucratic and much more flexible than the Commission’s. It approved it after many debates, by 496 votes to 161. This was a message we sent to the Council, that it was unable to negotiate sufficiently last week.
The Council and the Commission failed to understand that Parliament was proposing a new way of legislating in the Europe of 27, with different regulatory developments and experiences, and different bureaucratic systems. We need to look for new ways of getting closer to the citizen. The solution is not to legislate less, not a legislative blackout, but rather to find more open and flexible formulae as proposed by Parliament.
We proposed a document defining the result to be achieved – as Article 249 of the Treaty says – and, in exchange, to leave to the Member States the choice of form and methods. If Europe wants to lead the way on climate change and the environment, it cannot rely only on policies based on regulation, taxation and the judicialisation of environment policy. We need to learn to understand one another in liberty and flexibility. That is what is being asked of a young Europe."@en1
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