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"Mr President, I think that Mr Ferri’s recommendation is a step in the right direction. It stresses the need to guarantee the greatest safety for two- or three-wheel vehicles and, in particular, for mopeds, which are the cause of many deaths among our young people. Speedometers can surely be used to reduce the number of accidents, particularly from the point of view of discouraging speeding. Within the recommendation, we believe that postponing the deadline for transposition could be useful to the industry so that from a technical point of view, it can make adjustments.
However, with my speech, I want to address a delicate issue of a more general nature, which Mr Ferri has already dealt with, since this recommendation directly tackles one of the most delicate subjects of the interinstitutional report – commitology. Implementing measures for legislation are laid down in the committees, and the importance of this does not escape anyone. These are very important implementing measures which often impact on the legislative text and directly influence the way community legislation is then applied in the Member States. For example, in the specific case of road safety, which is the main subject of the recommendation, we believe that a general policy coordinated by the countries of the European Union should concern everyone, and we would instead like it to be considered to be a necessity rather than a hope, which is the case at the moment.
For this directive, the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market is proposing an advisory committee which would give the Commission the power to decide on the implementing measures after hearing the opinion of the Member States’ representatives. We members of the Group of the European People’s Party have followed the current debate on which method to use very closely. The Commission’s proposal that was accepted by the Council anticipated type III (a) regulations and was, in our opinion, probably arbitrary. In our view, an advisory committee would have produced greater balance between the institutions. Advisory committees are also the type of committee which Parliament has always preferred. In reference to this, I would remind you of the stances adopted by my colleagues Mr Bourlanges, Mr Di Giovanni and Mrs Aglietta in past parliamentary terms. The idea behind this is the total separation of powers between the legislative and executive bodies and aims to guarantee greater consideration of Community interests.
Nevertheless, it is true that the decision of 28 June constitutes a wide-ranging reform of the committees’ procedures and attributes substantial control to the European Parliament, particularly in the acts adopted under the codecision procedure, regardless of the type of committee. I therefore think that today the procedure is less important to Parliament than it was in the past, but I also think that the Community institutions must adopt a comprehensive and well-thought-out approach in order to respect the interinstitutional balance. Today, we can choose not to give our backing to an advisory committee, provided that the Commission undertakes to put forward as soon as possible a series of proposals to adapt legislation which provide for commitology as their implementing measure, so that we will have a thorough debate which is capable of ensuring coherent decisions in the various sectors of Community competence. We would ask the Commission to put forward a proposal very soon and for it to be available to discuss these choices in the spirit of cooperation it has shown until now.
I conclude my speech by voicing my total agreement with Mr Ferri, and in this case I think that for the moment we could postpone the advisory committee and so allow the directive to be adopted quickly, given that the Council of Ministers has shown its wish to go to conciliation in the event that such a committee is adopted."@en1
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