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"Mr President, Madam President, I thank Mrs Thun Und Hohenstein for the conscientiousness of her work and the overall quality of her report. As shadow rapporteur for the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, I am delighted that the vote in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection has made it possible to integrate into the final report a number of ideas that we wanted to see emerge. The first is the need to adopt a more qualitative approach in respect of the implementation of the Internal Market Scoreboard, enabling the causes of the transposition deficit to be identified. We do not underestimate the usefulness of the statistical data and the pressure that comes from promoting the EU’s good and bad students, but in our opinion, the Commission ought to be more ambitious and try to make this scoreboard a tool designed to appreciate the difficulties encountered by the Member States within the context of the transposition process. All the more so since we all know that the transposition deficit may sometimes be due not to ill will by the Member States, but to the mediocre quality of the European legislation to be transposed. The second aspect I focused on is the need to strengthen dialogue between the Commission and the Member States throughout the transposition period. The more the information exchanges take place upstream, the more it will be possible to prevent the risk of non­transposition or incorrect transposition. The report does, however, pose a problem on one point: this relates to paragraph 10, which did not initially appear in Mrs Thun Und Hohenstein’s draft report. This paragraph proposes the creation of an internal market test for all new proposed legislation. We are strongly opposed to this since such a test seems to us to be pointless at best and dangerous at worst. Indeed, the review of any barriers to the internal market already takes place during the impact studies carried out by the European Commission with each new legislative proposal. We would not like this internal market test to be used as a pretext for undermining social or environmental advances. We could not agree to it in those circumstances."@en1
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