Translation of "Livre Blanc sur le commerce " (French → English) :

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 52007DC0391 - EN - White Paper - White Paper on Sport {SEC(2007) 932} {SEC(2007) 934} {SEC(2007) 935} {SEC(2007) 936}

11. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the Green Paper does not suffer the same fate as the "White Paper on trade";

We have achieved a broad consensus between the groups in this House, and Commissioner, we do not want this European Parliament report and the Green Paper to suffer the same fate as the Green Paper on trade, which was debated and then quietly disappeared before the appropriate action could be taken.

11. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the ‘Green Paper on entrepreneurship’ does not suffer the same fate as the ‘White Paper on trade’;

Let me remind you of the Single European Act, of the first Delors package, of Maastricht with its second Delors package and the Report on Economic and Monetary Union, of the White Paper on the completion of the internal market, of the White Paper on growth, competition and employment with its visions of the social dialogue and of a social chapter in the Treaty, of the White Papers on environmental policy and on the role of Parliament and of all the great concepts produced by the Commission, which went ahead of the Intergovernmental Conferences to prepare their way.

In structural terms this will have two consequences: firstly, there is a need for increased financial resources and more staff for DG XXIII (especially in the small enterprises and craft industries unit and the trade and distribution unit) so that it can perform its coordinating role properly; secondly, the representative SME organizations must be consulted for all relevant policy areas - from the initial phase of the decision-making process and the talks preceding that phase (Green Paper and White Paper).