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"Madam President, on behalf of my Group, as one of those who worked on the work programme and also as chairman of the Committee on the Internal Market, I welcome the set of initiatives which have been put in front of us. There is nothing particularly unexpected in them, but I want to make a broader point, if I may, about presentation.
May I say to Mr Šefčovič that this is not actually the Commission’s work programme at all. This is a list of new initiatives. But, as a number of my colleagues have pointed out, the continuing work on projects started during 2012 – and even earlier – which have yet to be completed is as important as the new initiatives. Also, a really important part of the Commission’s work – and here I support what a number of colleagues have said already – is actually the implementation and enforcement of existing regulations and directives.
For example, in the area with which I am most familiar, we will complete next year, I am sure, a major review of the public procurement directives. That will require an intensive transposition and training programme across Member States to make it really effective. I would say to Commissioner Šefčovič, that in future his work programme has to be the whole work programme. We do not just want to see the new initiatives; we also want to see the progress which is going on in those areas, because that is a crucial part of your role in the Commission. We want to see that programmed, we want to see what you are doing and we want to be engaged with that.
My colleague, Andrew Duff, mentioned the Services Directive, which my committee has been working on extremely actively. This brings me to the second thing which is completely absent from the programme. Here at the back we have a list of your ideas about the proposals which are simplifying regulation, but I want to remind you that in our resolution on the work programme – which you commented on – we specifically asked the Commission to improve the quality of its legislative drafting and also to deal with the concerns we have about the qualitative impact assessment procedure and how well that is working. There is nothing about this in here at all. Why not? We know that the Secretary-General of the Commission is working on a review of that, which is not mentioned in here either.
So do better next time, please. Send us a proper work programme: initiatives, continuity, quality, implementation. Let us make this work properly, Mr Šefčovič; let us not have a partial programme, and please also stop dressing up these ideas with new little sub-initiatives. Let us get down to the real meat of doing our job better together."@en1
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