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"Madam President, Ms Reding, ladies and gentlemen, the proposal on European standardisation has been under discussion in this House for some time now. I believe that, at the end of this process, despite all the legitimate objections from Ms Reding, we will be able to say that, from Parliament’s point of view, a good result overall has been achieved with this measure, which is now in the hands of Commissioner Barnier in connection with the Single Market Act.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am also happy to tell you why I believe that we can congratulate the rapporteur, Ms Comi, on this result. First of all, we managed to achieve a situation where something that we have frequently demanded in the past – namely, that we need more regulations, which are directly applicable, rather than directives, which have to be transposed – could finally become a reality.
Secondly, we managed – and this is, after all, also always important for a dossier adopted at first reading at the end of the trialogue – to strengthen Parliament’s rights. In the past, the situation was that the Council was the only institution that could block standardisation proposals. Under the proposal before you today, which we are debating and on which we will be voting tomorrow, Parliament, too, has the ability to block proposals on standardisation by means of a resolution of this House, where, for example, proposals were brought forward again to regulate crime prevention measures in the establishment of development plans in one form or another under standardisation law, something which gave rise to some criticism from the Member States a few years back.
It is clear to us, however, that this proposal for a regulation accommodates economic policy goals for the whole of Europe. For one thing, it ensures that harmonised standards must remain market-oriented. We believe it is very important that we have ensured greater involvement of special interest groups, but that, at the same time, these groups can only assist with the actual standardisation process. We also believe it is very important that we have ensured, through the introduction of a notification system for third parties, that standards must also prove themselves in society, be supervised by society, and be accepted by society. Through this proposal, we can ensure that stakeholders, including the authorities, have full access to the European standardisation process. We can also ensure – and this is very important to us across group lines – that small and medium-sized enterprises have full access here and that the European standardisation landscape takes account of their special interests. Unfortunately, that was not always the case in the past.
Ladies and gentlemen, overall, it is true that this measure only consists of 12 key measures – levers – from the first Single Market Act. We must therefore avoid giving the impression that we have reached a milestone for small and medium-sized enterprises. It is one element, a building block of a strategy, that we absolutely need to consolidate in the Single Market Act II. I hope that we also gain the approval of the House for the Single Market Act II and all the measures that we will be adopting here in relation to small and medium-sized enterprises."@en1
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