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"Mr President, the Common European Sales Law, or CESL, as we call it, is a deeply flawed system that complicates consumer law and increases costs for businesses. Stakeholders from consumer groups and business organisations have queued up to condemn this new proposal, and I would love to hear from Ms Reding or someone else in this Chamber: if it is so good why does BEUC (the European consumers’ organisation) campaign against it?
We are not proposing to simplify the law but to add a new, 29
regime into the EU. CESL is an optional instrument for e-commerce, but it will be for businesses to decide when it applies, not consumers. In her remarks, Ms Reding said this would benefit small businesses, because they would not have to deal with 28 legal systems. Does that sound optional to you for the consumer? Mr Zwiefka says: oh no, the consumer will be able to choose whether to use it. Will he? How will he be able to choose it if, according to Ms Reding, that small business will not have to deal with 28 systems? The answer is, of course, that it will be the business that chooses. What will happen is that there will be a little box that you have to tick, and if you do not tick it, you will not be able to complete the transaction. Either Mr Zwiefka or Ms Reding is wrong. You cannot both be right on this subject. I would love to know whether you two had a conversation about this, because what you are saying is completely contradictory.
I fear that this proposal will undermine and fragment the single market. It will reduce consumer confidence, and I am left asking why we are debating this issue at all. I think the answer is in this Chamber: the answer is Ms Reding, because this is a vanity project. Unfortunately she supports it just because it introduces a new body of European law, and in her rather strange view of the world, anything that increase the power of the EU at the expense of the Member States, however flawed it is, must be a good thing – no matter that consumers and businesses are against it. My group will vote against this proposal, and I know that there are large numbers in the EPP and the S&D who will support Ms Gebhardt’s motion to reject this proposal. I hope we do."@en1
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