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"Mr President, I would like to start by congratulating my colleague, Mrs Ghilardotti, as well as the Council and the Commission for having finally secured progress on this dossier. As with the Regulation on the Statute for a European Company a few weeks ago, and the annex on participation, we have been making more progress in the last few months than we had for years.
I think that this gives us an excellent opportunity to send a clear signal to the public that, at European level, we have a concept of the company that encompasses all those that work within it, which, it must also be said, is not only a democratic right of workers, but, also, these principles of information and consultation set the right path for companies to become more efficient, more effective, non-authoritarian and participatory. In these times of globalisation, lifelong learning and the incorporation of workers into the dynamics of a company are crucial.
We hope, Commissioner, representatives of the Council, that, as Mrs Ghilardotti stated very clearly in her amendments, that this is a genuine regulation. This will require two obvious and fundamental elements: firstly, that the participation of workers should take place before decisions are made, for if this is not the case, they will carry on finding things out through the papers and they will really be under the impression that the work that has been carried out here in Parliament, in Council and in the Commission is a joke. They have to be involved before decisions are made, because the press is there for everyone else. Secondly, their participation must also be a legal requirement. The exact difference between the regulation and the recommendation is that, when the regulation is violated, there can be a sanction. If there is no sanction, what we do remains purely symbolic and has no legal foundation.
Representatives of the Council, we are at second reading. I would like to finish by saying that I hope that on this occasion we do not experience what has taken place on so many others, that you forget that Parliament has legislative faculties on a par with your own. I hope, therefore, that you will take good notice of Mrs Ghilardotti’s report, which is not only for her own good, but for the good of millions of citizens and workers in Europe."@en1
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