Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-01-15-Speech-1-064"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-01-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Simpler legislation for the internal market (SLIM)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010115.6.1-064"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-01-15-Speech-1-0652
lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Bushill-matthews2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I wish to begin by saying that although I have been allocated four minutes, I should like to do my bit for the simplification and streamlining of bureaucracy by speaking for less than half that time. I congratulate the rapporteur on highlighting such a very important issue and also highlighting the failures of the Commission to get to grips with it thus far. I hope that the Commissioner will say what more is to be done to give added urgency to what is such a very important programme. However, rather than criticise the Commission more than the rapporteur has already done, rather even than refer just to the four committees involved in this particular issue, I should like to highlight one issue the rapporteur also raised, which is that it is really entirely up to us, as Members of this House, to ensure that legislation is better in the first place. He wondered to what extent legislation should delve into details and gave an example involving people holding ladders. That particular subject came up in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. It must be said that this particular committee has contributed very significantly to the extra bureaucracy that we are now passing the buck to the Commission to try and reduce. How much better it would be if that committee, and indeed all other committees, had left such legislation alone in its simpler and purer form in the first place. My final suggestion is that for us the acronym SLIM – "Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market" – should represent "Substantially Less Interference by Members"."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bushill-Matthews (PPE-DE )."1

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