Translation of "Entraver la marche d'un autre cheval " (French → English) :

But a Member State does not have the right to block the moves of others, the others also have their national sovereignty and if they want to go further, they should go further.

47. Agrees that the notification procedure introduced by Directive 98/34/EC is a very efficient tool for improving national legislation, on the one hand, and for avoiding barriers in the single market, particularly for SMEs, on the other; believes that the Commission should reinforce the mechanism by starting a fast-track infringement procedure if a Member State does not comply with a detailed opinion issued by the Commission or does not react to a detailed opinion issued by a Member State,

47. Agrees that the notification procedure introduced by Directive 98/34/EC is a very efficient tool for improving national legislation, on the one hand, and for avoiding barriers in the single market, particularly for SMEs, on the other; believes that the Commission should reinforce the mechanism by starting a fast-track infringement procedure if a Member State does not comply with a detailed opinion issued by the Commission or does not react to a detailed opinion issued by a Member State,

5. Points out that at the end of 2008 the Commission's Directorate General on Health and Consumers published the results of two studies on collective redress mechanisms in the Member States and possible barriers to the internal market resulting from Member States' differing legislation; points out also that the Commission published a green paper on the Community's possible options for action in the field of consumer protection law and has announced the publication of another policy paper in 2009; stresses that measures at Community level must not lead to ar ...[+++]bitrary or unnecessary fragmentation of procedural national laws and that, therefore, careful consideration should be given to whether, and if so to what extent, a horizontal or integrated approach should be chosen to facilitate out-of-court settlements and the prosecution of actions for damages; calls on the Commission, therefore, to undertake an examination of the possible legal bases and how to proceed in a horizontal or integrated way though not necessarily with a single horizontal instrument, and to refrain, in the meantime, from presenting any collective redress mechanism for victims of breaches of the EC competition rules without allowing Parliament to participate in the adoption of such a mechanism in the course of the codecision procedure;

14. Takes the view that SMEs largely and disproportionately bear the weight of the obstacles, bureaucratic and otherwise, of the internal market; calls on the Commission further to dismantle these obstacles, considering it thus to be vital that the Commission, systematically and without delay, initiate infringement proceedings under Article 226 of the EC Treaty against any Member State that fails to fulfil one of its obligations under the EC Treaty, and in particular the provisions concerning the internal market, including those concerning the Common Customs Tariff, free movement of services and common taxation rules;

Therefore, the Regulation forbids any direct or indirect hinderance of parallel trade, i.e.: - the refusal of dealers to supply a consumer simply because this consumer is a resident of another Member State; - charging foreign consumers higher prices or imposing longer delivery periods than for native consumers; - refusing to grant guarantee services or other free-of-charge services for cars imported from another Member State; - hindering the activities of intermediaries authorized by consumers by applying excessive criteria concern ...[+++]ing their mandate; - restriction of supplies by manufactureres to dealers who sell cars to consumers resident in another Member State; - threats by manufacturers to terminate contracts with dealers who sell cars to consumers resident in another Member State.