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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think that all of us here are agreed that, as the Commissioner has just said, we must not allow the internal market to become the first victim of the crisis; on the contrary, 20 years after the creation of this single market, we must instead do all we can to ensure that this internal market genuinely abides by the uniform rules that all of us here purport to be working to achieve. I would therefore like to express my great thanks to Mr Busuttil for his work on this report in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, because in principle, the internal market scoreboard provides the European Parliament with a consistent annual barometer which shows the status of the internal market.
However, ladies and gentlemen, 20 years after the introduction of the single European market, we must take this opportunity, and the opportunity presented by the festivities that will take place at the end of the year, to ask what has worked well in these 20 years and what could potentially be improved. I feel that Mr Busuttil’s report on the internal market scoreboard shows very clearly where the internal market still has shortcomings.
In general terms, there is a lack of transparency. There are, in principle, two problems with the transposition of legislation relevant to the internal market. Firstly, there is the failure to transpose the legislation – and in this regard, we have just had mention once again of our nice target of 1%, which is met by only a very few of Europe’s Member States. I believe, however, that this figure conceals how poorly some Member States are implementing the internal market and its
because there is a second problem, which is not the failure to transpose European law, but the fact that European law is being transposed incorrectly or is not being adequately implemented.
I believe – and I am firmly convinced of this – that we simply need greater transparency here. It does not help when the Legal Service of the European Commission tells us that infringement proceedings must take place behind closed doors. We need greater openness, firstly, as regards what is going wrong in the individual Member States, in what way things are not being transposed correctly, and secondly, as to why the Member States do not remedy this promptly when the European Commission asks them to do so. I therefore very much welcome Mr Busuttil’s suggestion of creating a category for fast-track proceedings.
Secondly, I know from my eight years in the European Parliament that in the case of many directives and regulations, but particularly in the case of directives, the Members of Parliament and even the Commission often do not know how earlier directives were transposed into national law. The European Parliament has frequently called in the past for a correlation table to be obtained from the Member States when new legislation is passed. I believe we should try to make this a reality by taking the 2004
in which we have correlation tables for all the new Member States as at 2004, as a basis for also drawing up a correlation table as at 2004 for the older Member States, possibly financed from our own resources, because this could shed more light on things.
I feel that this debate on internal market governance is only just beginning, and I am therefore pleased to be playing an active part in the debate."@en1
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