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"Mr President, there are many aspects to this debate: better drafting, wider consultation and so on, and we are making progress on a number of these. However, the issue I would like to address is what I would call 'horizontal subsidiarity', it is not vertical subsidiarity that Lord Inglewood just addressed in his comments about the level of government - European, national or regional. It is about whether or not you should legislate, whether you should leave it to self-regulation, co-regulation or no regulation at all. There too we need a hierarchy; we need an onus to prove the need to intervene. It may be that you do not need to regulate in certain matters or on certain subjects. If you do, it may be that self-regulation is enough, and if that is not enough, that co-regulation is enough. However, when it is not enough – and only when it is not enough – then we should intervene and adopt legislation.
The question is, as with vertical subsidiarity, who decides? It is right that the legislative authority should decide. Those who are accountable to the population as a whole, rather than to certain sectoral interests, should take that decision in the first place. That is why I welcome the interinstitutional agreement and the Frassoni report – and I congratulate Mrs Frassoni on her report.
This interinstitutional agreement does not contain an enormous amount, but it does contain recognition that to co-regulate you first need authorisation from the legislative authority. That is a very important principle and is something we have achieved in this interinstitutional agreement.
I should just like to add a word about interinstitutional agreements in general. We now have a large number of them, many of them overlap, some repeat the same subjects using different wording. We will soon have to come back and codify and simplify the various interinstitutional agreements that we have into a single, clear, concise text. It is one of the first things we should return to once we have settled the issue, hopefully soon, of adopting our new European Constitution."@en1
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