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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I think it is very important that we should stand shoulder to shoulder with my colleague, Mr Dalli, to reply to your questions and to tell you about the implementation of these various tools and texts.
It is, to some extent, this same spirit that drives the action plan for the Single Market Assistance Services, the SMAS plan, the aim of which is to provide better information and a better service to citizens and businesses. Progress has been made here as well. This plan has enabled different services and common online forms between SOLVIT and the Citizens Signpost Service to be brought together.
As that has been suggested by your rapporteurs, I think that, under the control of Mr Dalli, we could make an effort, that we must make an effort to present all these documents, all these results, all these communications at the same time, in order to bring together and better coordinate these different tools that describe the implementation of the internal marketrelated texts or directives.
In any event, I am in favour of this improved coordination and confirm my personal undertaking to make good use of these various tools for evaluating and monitoring the 1 500 directives associated with the functioning of the internal market.
In my political life, ladies and gentlemen, I have often considered that the monitoring effect is at least as important as the announcement effect. I therefore think it very important, when one is in a national parliament, or the European Parliament, when one is in the Commission, that one should have instruments to check and to evaluate the concrete, genuine implementation of the texts one is voting for. I also think that in order to act properly, one needs to understand properly, and it is precisely on this point that your rapporteurs have focused with a great deal of skill and vigilance.
I would like to thank Mrs Thun Und Hohenstein and Mr Buşoi most sincerely for those matters which concern me more directly, as well as Mrs Hedh, for the quality of their reports.
What are we talking about? We are talking about the internal market. I said quite late yesterday evening in this Chamber that, at this time of crisis and economic difficulty, we cannot afford not to make use of all potentialities. If the internal market, the large European market, functioned normally, as it will have to function, we would be able to achieve by ourselves, between ourselves, between 0.5 and 1.5% of additional growth.
At the moment, we cannot afford to lose this opportunity. The internal market must therefore function fully in all its aspects and this is, of course, the task that President Barroso has entrusted me with, under your control. This is why I attach importance to this scoreboard and to this SOLVIT instrument, and to their proper functioning. I think that Mr Dalli will say exactly the same regarding the important issue of consumers.
Mrs Thun Und Hohenstein has just spoken about the good news and the not so good news concerning this scoreboard. We are talking here about 1 521 directives or texts that enable the internal market to function, and that is a lot. There is currently a transposition deficit which, precisely as you said, is at its lowest ever level. This is good news, and we must thank all those who, in the Member States, and sometimes in the regions, are responsible for implementing this directive. I would also like to include in these thanks my colleagues in the Directorate-General for the Internal Market.
There is also one piece of news that is not so good, and that is that the quality of transposition, the quality of implementation, is unsatisfactory. We must therefore all work together, with the European Parliament, with the national parliaments, with the officials in each Member State. This is the purpose, as I told you when I was heard by Parliament, of the visits I am going to make as of now – I have already begun – to each of the 27 capitals to meet in person, under the authority of the competent ministers, the officials responsible for implementing the internal market directives, and for working out the items on this scoreboard and getting SOLVIT up and running, as Mr Buşoi has clearly said.
This is also why I told Mrs Thun Und Hohenstein that I agree with this idea of a forum; it is a very good idea. We need to bring people together, and we shall do so together, here in Parliament, with the Commission, the national parliaments and all those responsible in each Member State for sharing, evaluating and exchanging good practices. I fundamentally believe in the benefit of pooling those in charge: agreement rather than constraint, agreement first, mutual trust and shared labour.
As far as SOLVIT is concerned, Mr Buşoi has pointed out the importance of this tool, which is beginning to work well. We currently have 1 500 cases that have been dealt with by cooperation, by resolution, by mediation, essentially on behalf of citizens, but also on behalf of a large number of businesses. As Mr Buşoi quite rightly pointed out, this enables savings in terms of money and time and in this way, citizens, consumers and businesses are returned to their place at the heart of the single market rather than having to enter into excessively cumbersome procedures so that a solution to their problems can be found, included and provided in the implementation of this or that internal marketrelated provision that concerns them."@en1
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