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"Mr President, we have just spoken about intellectual property, which concerns so many companies — I mentioned the one million trade marks proposed and protected in Alicante — and we are still talking about a Europe of practical progress based on the Commission’s proposals thanks to you and thanks to the Council of Ministers.
I wanted to emphasise this practical Europe and in particular this ambition I spoke of at the beginning of my term in office two years ago that together, with regard to the internal market and the economy, we must reconcile both small and medium-sized enterprises and consumers with this large market, whereas, up to now, these small and medium-sized enterprises have felt that the large single market was not made for them, but only for the big companies.
Mr Lechner, I want to thank you and your colleagues, as this issue does concern small and medium-sized enterprises. By facilitating access to information for citizens, small businesses and public authorities, this interconnection will allow any EU citizen to use the network of commercial registers in their own language from a central access point to obtain information immediately about any European business no matter where it is based, and about its cross-border operations in particular.
Until now, the lack of a network connecting national commercial registers made it very complicated to access information on companies in other Member States, resulting in considerable administrative and financial burdens for cross-border businesses. This additional cost, honourable Members, is estimated at around EUR 70 million per year.
The lack of real interconnection between the registers has also resulted in less transparency for other businesses, consumers and public powers. This progress will therefore also lead to greater transparency; at the same time, we will improve legal certainty by allowing for around 17 000 foreign branches, which in reality have not been operational since their parent company was dissolved, to be removed from the register.
Our initiative had two objectives: better access to information on companies and greater legal certainty for branches and cross-border operations. Furthermore, our proposal received strong support during the public consultation, not only from the private sector but also from the Council, the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee.
Allow me, Mr President, to express my sincerest thanks to your rapporteur, Kurt Lechner, for his work, to the shadow rapporteurs, Evelyn Regner and Alexandra Thein, and also to the Hungarian, Polish and Danish Presidencies, which supported this issue. I would also like to welcome and thank all of the parties, yourself and the Council for the sense of compromise they have shown in managing to finalise the adoption of this report so quickly.
You have a lot of expectations of the Commission. It will play a central role in the future system. I hope that we will measure up to our responsibilities, even though, let me remind you, there will inevitably be questions regarding financial resources. However, I have good reason to believe that these issues will be quickly resolved.
Mr Lechner, this interconnection of commercial registers for citizens and businesses, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises, is a worthwhile project, as you have said, and I wanted to thank you for this progress, which we will bring about together towards the correct functioning of the single market."@en1
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