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"Mr President, my colleague, Mr Menrad, has put a great deal of thought into his work and raises some interesting points concerning the perceived strengths and weaknesses of the existing directive. However, it should be noted that certain countries only implemented this directive last year and that at least one country has not yet implemented certain provisions at all.
It is clear that companies and their employees still need some time to complete the learning process involved in establishing European works councils. Premature changes to the rules can only cause confusion, though it is clearly useful for the Commission and Council to take note of Parliament's views at this time.
As the rapporteur knows, I believe in information and consultation. I support the principle of works councils, I share his wish for their success. However, as he also knows, I am not at all happy with certain elements of his report. I still believe it goes too far in reference to sanctions in reducing thresholds in terms of sizes of companies and – frankly – in pushing the trade union agenda as an end in itself rather than in promoting the interests of employees. For these reasons, I have tabled four amendments, for which I have already secured some cross-party support and I also propose to vote against Recitals 5 and 7, as he knows.
Having said that, I thank the rapporteur for accommodating some amendments in committee and I confirm that I am still willing to vote in favour of his whole report, despite my serious concerns, if the PPE-DE Group supports two of my amendments, in particular Amendments Nos 1 and 3, as we have already discussed. In that way we could show that our own mini-European works council of a German rapporteur, a Dutch group coordinator and myself from the United Kingdom have set a good example in achieving a positive result."@en1
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