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vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3
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Of course, I welcome the content of Mr Mayol i Raynal’s report, which I voted for, just as, moreover, after the Ecofin Council request in September 2000, I welcome the Commission’s intention to establish, at last, a labour cost index whose validity and usefulness are supported by a legal basis and recognised throughout the Union.
That said, I wonder what the Commission will do with the future data and what its actual significance will be. In particular, I have reservations regarding one part of the Commission’s text, which states that labour costs are a potential source of inflation. The rapporteur himself raises this concern too, for if there is any question to be posed in that regard it is whether a mere four categories are sufficient to provide all the elements necessary to achieve the complex figure we want.
We are all aware of the significance, within a production category, of the labour cost per product unit, linked as it is to the extent to which machines are used and, therefore, of the importance of geographical location. Again: we need to be able to ascertain whether any areas that might be penalised by higher labour costs per product unit benefit from State aid or the Structural Funds, and then monitor this data to verify whether it increases over time or remains the same.
This would make it possible to assess the effects of cohesion policies, in some cases, and the effects merely of choices taken freely by entrepreneurs in response to opportunities, in others.
Lastly, we need to consider, in addition to trade tariffs and external inflation factors, the effects of the taxation and related policies of each country. This is because – and we share the rapporteur’s view – we believe that there is no country in the Union whose wage negotiation mechanisms appear, at first glance, to generate a labour cost whose index causes the cost of living to rise.
The truth is that wage negotiation mechanisms ceased some years ago to serve the purpose of furthering the distribution of wealth and, in some cases, do not even succeed in fully offsetting the effects of inflation retrospectively.
To sum up, these are the analyses to be made if, as the Commission advocates, indeed, we want to provide social partners with more refined tools for negotiating wage agreements. However, it is some consolation to think that social partners already have the results of the aforementioned analyses available for their practical studies."@en1
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