Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-313"
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"Mr President, at first reading of this directive, Parliament indicated very clearly to the Council and the Commission that it wished to replace the detailed legislation with general guidelines and to allow a technical committee to prescribe the detailed specifications. However, the Council’s common position rides roughshod over Parliament. The Council has not in any way taken account of Parliament’s firm repudiation of detailed legislation.
The report is about more than just buses. It is about the way in which the EU is to legislate. I am not of course opposed to making sure that people with disabilities can use European buses. What I am opposed to is the mode of procedure. I find it quite unreasonable that, as a politician, I should have to take decisions about how many millimetres bus door handles and luggage racks should measure. In my own country, the EU is often made into a laughing-stock for meddling and for regulating in too much detail. People quite rightly question an EU that is in many ways unwieldy and bent on regulating. MEPs’ credibility is brought into question if we take decisions about things we do not know anything about. An example is Annex V of the Council’s common position. I am not ashamed to say that I do not understand the formula according to which the closing power of automatic doors is to be calculated.
I do not want to contribute to making ourselves and the EU into laughing-stocks. Despite the fact that I was not involved in the first reading in 1988, I would remind this Parliament that it voted 485 to 1 in favour of the general guidelines rather than the detailed legislation. Why should Parliament change its mind now? For the Swedish Conservative Party, this was an important issue in the 1999 elections. I was elected on a mandate to combat politicians’ inability to leave things alone. I cannot therefore vote in favour of the Council’s common position. I would therefore call upon the whole Parliament to vote in favour of Amendment No 9, tabled by my colleague Mr Lehne and rejecting the Council’s common position."@en1
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