Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2014-02-03-Speech-1-073-000"
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"Mr President, our businesses have to compete with others across the globe and, if we want growth and jobs, we need to allow them to be competitive. Politicians do not make jobs. Businesses do. The single market is meant to be about helping businesses to trade across borders, giving them easy access to 500 million potential customers. It is not about burying them under piles of paperwork. This is what the Right of this House believes, but the Left seems more intent on yet more bureaucracy.
In certain sectors we have already cut red tape and secured exemptions for small businesses, but much more could be done. One-size-fits-all legislation is not always the right solution. We should only pass international laws where they are truly needed to solve international problems and we must listen more carefully to the concerns of national governments. We should adopt a one-in, one-out strategy and remember that one new EU law does not automatically mean 28 national ones are scrapped.
The impact of our legislation and of our own amendments must be considered more carefully and we need to think small first, because the burden of bureaucracy is often felt most acutely by the smallest companies. Tiny businesses should be exempted and smaller ones given lighter-touch laws. We have identified the top ten most burdensome pieces of legislation and we must take action on each one.
On the issue of compliance, why do some countries obey every single letter and even gold-plate, when other countries are allowed to turn a blind eye? If the single market is to survive, every player should play by the rules."@en1
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