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"Madam President, Commissioner Barnier, I would congratulate the rapporteur in general terms on his excellent report. A fully operational internal market will ensure more jobs and more trade, will enable consumers to be better informed and to have access to more varied, better quality and more reliable goods and services, and will strengthen small and medium-sized enterprises and better prepare them to confront globalisation.
The Member States play a key role in this, not just in terms of producing legislation, which has to be appropriate, innovative and inventive, but also during the stage of transposition to domestic legal systems. That is where the problems arise. The Member States sometimes consider the transposition deadline to be far longer than the stipulated two years, which is a major spanner in the works for this market of 500 million people and makes the entry into force of rules governing it impractical. Other Member States transpose directives incorrectly or insufficiently, causing enormous problems with interpreting rules and applying them to the European market.
The 2011 communication on governance of the internal market compiles the life cycle of governance in a single document. The holistic approach Parliament has been advocating for a long time, particularly in the Grech report, now enables us to have a more complete and wide-ranging vision of the obstacles to the internal market being fully operational.
Resistance from Member States, inertia and, at times, weak commitment to proper transposition should be actively combated by the European Commission, by Parliament and, let us not forget, by active scrutiny from the national parliaments.
SOLVIT, which has a key role in extra-judicial resolution of the problems which arise for members of the public and companies as a result of the internal market not working properly, should be given, as soon as possible, a legal basis that enables its full potential to be exploited and the best possible response to be given to the challenges. It should also complement the Commission’s work on infringement proceedings.
From now on, the annual governance report and the Single Market Forum – which was initially suggested by my colleague, Mr Grech, and whose first meeting in Kraków in October 2011 was a great success – should guide the development of the internal market. This forum, or – as Commissioner Barnier has just called it – Single Market Week, which we hope will take place regularly, is enormously important in evaluating the progress with, and obstacles to, the development of the internal market. This is because, as well as giving us information, the governance report brings together in the same place various actors, legislators, consumers, business owners and other interested parties who will thereby be able to audit the internal market’s performance and to have a better perception of the rights and developments in this area.
I shall conclude by taking the opportunity to express some surprise at a proposal by the rapporteur from the day before the vote in committee, following a fruitful debate lasting more than six months. This proposal advocated the creation of a body independent of the Commission responsible for internal market infringement proceedings and with the authority to launch infringement proceedings following approval by the Commission: a Single Market Prosecutor.
This is a hugely complex idea, requiring an in-depth debate that has not taken place and clarification of the legal nature that this body would be given, its intrinsic powers and its
. We regret that this complex proposal emerged so late, making debate impossible; under the circumstances, we are not very receptive."@en1
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