Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-01-Speech-3-229"
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"Mr President, for many countries, Mr Toubon’s changes to the Commission’s proposal mean new rules being laid down at EU level for an already functioning market. We Swedish Social Democrats do not believe that the rapporteur’s amendments involve any benefit for consumers. On the contrary. If the rapporteur’s approach were to meet with sympathy, it would involve major conversion costs for many European companies, and this without the groups we say we represent even needing or necessarily even desiring the changes.
For example, the Swedish Consumers’ Association, which works actively with quite a few cooperation groups and associations on precisely these issues to do with packaging, has, on the basis of our contacts with the Association, never heard any wishes expressed concerning fixed pack sizes. Moreover, the EU’s institutions would not be complying with their ambition to improve the quality of legislation by avoiding detailed regulation. We Swedish Social Democrats have nothing against making stringent demands of businesses with a view to their achieving better consumer protection. On the contrary. As has been pointed out, however, the regulations are, in this case, unnecessary, and we shall therefore vote against the report."@en1
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