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lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Bushill-matthews2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I would just like to make a small and medium-sized intervention on my favourite subject of SMEs. I was delighted that Commission President Barroso made many remarks about SMEs in his opening comments. But if I have a concern, it is a concern that he talks words – as one has to when one talks – but we have not yet seen enough action – a comment that Malcolm Harbour made earlier on today. I notice that in section 3 of your Legislative and Work Programme for 2009, a very important section entitled ‘Better regulation – delivery on promises and change of regulatory culture’, there is a comment that ‘a simpler and better regulatory environment without unnecessary administrative burdens will, therefore, remain a key component of the Commission’s legislative work’. With due respect, Commissioners – and I speak as a great fan and supporter of the Commission in this regard – I have not yet seen evidence of this being in this legislative programme. There is a lot of talk of that: yes, we will do it, we will reduce by 25% – but where is the beef? Where is the reduction? We have not yet seen it. So, going back to the heading ‘Better regulation – delivery on promises’, if there is one word that you remember for this legislative programme, Commissioners, that word must please be ‘delivery’. My final thought is that I do recognise that changing culture takes time and also, speaking as the coordinator for employment and social affairs for the PPE-DE Group, I do realise that the committee on which I have the great good fortune to sit is not always the greatest ally in the cause of better and simplified regulation. But I have to suffer in this committee, and my invitation is that one of you should come and suffer too – if only briefly – because we may be part of the problem. But if we could somehow create a new precedent that, ideally, the Commission President would come and address our committee, maybe that would help make our committee help your work, and we could then become part of the solution."@en1
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