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"Mr President, I warmly welcome this very strong package of measures from the Commission, in particular, because, as I think all my colleagues on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection have said, much of it reflects what we have been saying and promoting through our work over the last two and a half or three years.
I want to thank everybody on the committee for their deep engagement and knowledge about this subject. I think the resolution that we produced in response to this and marking out the road for the next phase of the Single Market Act is really important, and I hope the House will pass that with a very substantial majority tomorrow.
I think the key aspect of the package that we have in front of us today is that it is a very realistic and practical approach. I quote from what you said, Commissioner, in your governance proposal: ‘we have to make what we have work better’. This is not about bold new legislative solutions and, as a number of my colleagues have said, we have had enough of those. We need to get down to delivering the benefits of what we have already worked on.
Many of us here, particularly Ms Gebhardt, myself and Mr Schwab, worked on the Services Directive. We have been worried that it has not been transposed quickly enough, and we are pleased now that you are now going to put some real pressure on the Member States to ensure that those rights are properly delivered. That is not just about business; it is about consumers, as a number of you have said.
However, perhaps the most scandalous aspect of the Single Market at the moment is that, when citizens use the online tools they have on the Internet, they cannot actually buy services cross-border. They cannot buy goods cross-border in many cases because they are refused access to other websites and, in some cases, they are even offered different prices for the same service, depending on where they are making their enquiry. These things are absolutely unacceptable.
Finally, I will just close with this point. You said quite rightly, Commissioner, that the whole single market package must be subject to the deepest level of so-called smarter regulation – better policy making. This is not just true for the Single Market; it is true for everything we are doing in this House."@en1
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