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"Mr President, as chairman of the committee and also the shadow rapporteur for my group, I warmly welcome our agreements on this proposal, and I know the House is going to give it very substantial support today. I particularly want to thank all colleagues who have worked on it under the inspired leadership of Robert Rochefort – who I see is not paying attention to me because he is talking to Ms Wikström – but I want to say to him that his expertise in this has been very well deployed in many of the detailed proposals.
This is of real importance to us as a committee because, as we have heard from a number of speakers already, we have driven through some really important advances for consumers. I particularly want to highlight the issue about dispute resolution, or rather alternative and on-line dispute resolution, because there are a lot of really important resources to help get that operating. I think the broader picture – and Ms Irigoyen Pérez put her finger on this – is that in many cases we have seen the opportunity to strengthen the rights of consumers, to give them better information and ensure better and safer products, but we are not seeing those rights delivered consistently in every country. This resource is all about doing that.
I want to say in conclusion to the Commissioner – whom I warmly welcome here, as I think this is the first major proposal we have worked on together – please help us to resolve the impasse in the Council at the moment on the regulation on consumer product safety. We really want to get that through in this Parliament, Commissioner, and unless we move forward on this, a lot of the work we have done is simply going to be sitting here for the next six months, whereas we could be enhancing consumers’ access to better and safer products if we unblock that log jam in the Council at the moment. I should add, Mr President, that I am disappointed to see that there is no one here from the Council Presidency to listen to this debate."@en1
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