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"Madam President, I welcome this agreement as a step in the right direction; but like the Commissioner, I wish it had been more ambitious.
Reform in the European Union must be an ongoing process and it cannot stop with this interinstitutional agreement. Cutting administrative burdens, cutting red tape, especially for small businesses, is absolutely vital for our competitiveness in the global economy. My Group established three key priorities for the IIA: the SME and competitiveness tests, burden reduction targets and the independence of the regulatory scrutiny board.
On the last priority, our report sees the establishment of the scrutiny board as a welcome first step in achieving the independence thereof. On the first two, I am very pleased that the IIA reflects the text of the Council conclusions from February, specifically the burden reduction target. This was a key part of my Prime Minister's negotiations. Simplifying regulation and setting targets for cutting red tape will be good for the whole EU, and that is just what he made clear: we should make things better for the whole of Europe, not just the UK.
So there are some important things in this agreement, including impact assessments on substantive amendments, sunset and review clauses and a strong commitment to regulatory simplification. I am particularly pleased to see the commitment to undertake an annual burden survey to review the efforts to simplify legislation, to avoid overregulation and to look at the stock of existing EU law.
As someone who believes that Britain will be better off in a reformed EU, I see reform as vital and I see this agreement as another step in the right direction, in a continuing journey of reform."@en1
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