Text tabled : A7-0069/2012

  Derek Vaughan (S&D), in writing. – This new regulation sets the rules for cooperation between national and European standardisation bodies and the European Commission. This will ensure clarity and help avoid administrative problems with a view to allowing firms to get quicker access to standard solutions to technical problems. This modernisation in the development process for EU standards will enable firms to cut production costs. It will help in the spread of best practice, and it will also boost competitiveness and drive growth. I fully support this regulation as voted by the European Parliament, and I am especially pleased that small firms, representatives of consumers, and environmental and civil society bodies will now be consulted during the development process.