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"Mr President, I think we should be very pleased with the quality of this report. Our fellow citizens often see subsidiarity as a vague concept, but they can certainly appreciate its proper application. Mr Wuermeling has made an excellent presentation of subsidiarity, guaranteeing decision-making at the most relevant level. We would actually like the Commission to give us more details on the proper application of this principle for each proposal, so that a real balance sheet can be drawn up at the time of the annual report. It would also be very worthwhile if the Commission could make an inventory of the existing body of law in the light of that principle, to make it simpler, more transparent, more effective and more relevant, and to repeal superfluous texts, as Paragraph 6 of this report invites it to do.
For example there is Directive 79/409, which has prompted the tabling of a written statement on the management of wild birds, already signed by a large number of Members. A text like that needs revision when it no longer responds to its initial objective and has become out of date and inappropriate, otherwise it will be a source of disputes as harmful as they are unpopular.
While I share the rapporteur’s concern about quality legislation, I am even more concerned than him about real complementarity between our Parliament and the national parliaments. They must be asked to participate fully in a better application of the principle of subsidiarity. Who better than they to assess what they are actually in a position to achieve at national level and what should be done jointly at European level? The Heads of State and Government, to whom this report is addressed, will have an excellent opportunity at the IGC to assess which measures should be taken at European level and which at national level.
In conclusion, I would say that while I find certain amendments very constructive, I wonder about the logic of certain others which seem to ignore the reality and importance of a principle enshrined in the Treaties."@en1
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