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"Mr President, I, too, wish to thank Mrs Ghilardotti for the sound and skilful work she has done on this report. I also wish, in particular, to thank her for her understanding of the minority views that may be adopted by a Danish MEP in this situation, for we have a special system of consultation and cooperation in the labour market which creates problems for us from time to time. We all agree, of course, that information and consultation and a good social dialogue are important. It has become a part of modern management to attach importance to these things, to involve employees and to talk about learning organisations, so enabling companies to develop better.
I believe it is important that, when we talk about these matters, we do not only view information and consultation as part and parcel of restructuring and the reduction of the labour force, but as also being a part of day-to-day work in which it takes a long time to build up mutual confidence and that reciprocal dialogue that can be of value both to employees and companies in a crisis situation and which may also perhaps play a part in preventing crises from breaking out within companies. We have had a long period in which it was difficult getting everyone to understand the need for revising this directive, and revision has been blocked by a majority of the Council. Denmark has been a part of that blocking majority, not because we are nervous about having rules on information and consultation – we have in actual fact had stringent rules on these matters from as far back as 1960 – but because we are afraid that common rules might create problems for the system we think works well in practice. It would, of course, be an irony of fate if common rules were to be destructive in an area in which matters are operating well.
Flexibility is a key word when it comes to drawing up the common rules, but there must not of course be so much flexibility that the required information and consultation does not occur in those places in which these things have not been emphasised. I must say, therefore, that, on the whole, my group is able to support Mrs Ghilardotti’s proposals. We have some problems where the sanctions are concerned, and I must say that the Council’s solution is an extremely fine balance that it is very difficult not to upset. There is therefore a single point in regard to which we cannot completely endorse the strict rules indicated in Mrs Ghilardotti’s report but in regard to which we prefer to endorse the Council’s solution. On the other hand, I want to say, on the subject of interim arrangements, that it is a question of putting these in place. Let us now get these matters implemented and not just continue to talk about them. Information and consultation are not a punishment for business. On the contrary, they are things that promote good business and competitiveness."@en1
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