Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-12-14-Speech-2-688"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-12-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20101214.41.2-688"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-12-14-Speech-2-6892
lpv:speaker	lp:Oreste Rossi2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2012-02-01)3 member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; BUDG (2009-10-07--2012-01-18)3 substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Lega Nord (2009-07-14--2013-03-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2009-09-16--2012-02-14)3 member; EFD (2009-07-14--2013-06-11)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are in favour of the report on metrology. It is a very technical text and one on which we have been waiting to vote in plenary for months. The report, which sailed through the competent committee, was submitted last March, and the situation has dragged on for so long because an agreement on the associated correlation tables had to be reached within the Council, between the 27 Member States. The real problem is that the European Commission has still not presented the proposal for a directive on measuring instruments, which should supersede the obsolete directives that we are repealing today and regulate this matter once and for all. I wish to criticise the Commission for having reached the stage where it is abolishing the obsolete directives without having presented, at the same time, a proposal to revise the Measuring Instruments Directive. Such behaviour is unjustifiable, and it is a long way from meeting the needs of businesses and citizens. At the same time, I would criticise the excessive fear of those who believe that the law of the Member States is incapable of filling the gap during the . Fortunately, European businesses have a system of international standards for the sector that is independent of, and goes beyond, EU rules. Therefore, the fears of a disaster happening in the period between the promulgation and entry into force of the directives are unfounded. Businesses will fill the legislators’ gaps with their trade organisations, with their skills, with the rules that they have set themselves in order to create a dynamic and balanced market. We must remember our businesses, which continue to operate in Europe with great difficulty. We must stop squeezing them with taxes, red tape and absurd requests. Sometimes, work is done swiftly in Parliament. Common sense and a desire to reach agreements with the other European institutions transcend political divisions."@en1
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