European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

And now member states in the European Union, but also the European Parliament, are going to read it to decide on, uh, processes, to decide on who is going to have an opinion on this, who is going to have a vote on this, who can take part in the process.

So this is basically where we are at the moment, so it's It's pushed to the parliament, which means there was a very, very first reading in the committee in the European Parliament, the IMCO committee, where the European Commission presented the file towards the members of the parliament.

They still don't know yet who's going to be the rapporteur, who is going to be the shadow rapporteur, which committees are going to debate on this.

Uh, same is true for the council.

So they will...

So these, these responsible people, the rapporteurs, uh, they are called rapporteurs, they will write a draft report and say, "Yeah, uh, from my opinion as the committee for workers' rights, I do believe we should modify the clause on workers' rights." The committee on inner security tells you, "Ah, there is a, the, the, super interesting, we don't care for your chairs, we don't care for your streets, but when we talk about inner security, then it needs to be mandatory," for example, right? So this is what they will amend, and then you have a leading committee.

This is the IMCO committee and the committee on internal market and consumer protection, and this committee will have basically streamlined all these ideas and will come up with a final report, which will then be pushed to the plenary.

The plenary will vote on this, and then we have a parliament position.

Yes.

No, I have to say that in general, we do work a lot with the ITRE committee, but not only, also with the IMCO committee, for example, the internal market, uh, committee.

But in general, member of the European Parliament are eager to listen to stakeholders, you know, because of course a member of the Parliament cannot be expert on everything, and that's also the beauty of democracy, you know, being elected as a person that doesn't know all about everything, but exactly because you are representing someone, you also should be very open to listen to everyone you're representing.

So that's why usually member of the Parliament are of course open to listen to everyone, and then of course there is everything involved in politics, so you know.

You, you think about it, it's a service being provided.

So that goes off to the IMCO committee here in, in Brussels, and they will take it on.

I would imagine you're talking six to nine months before they will actually bring forward the legislation.

It's clear to me that the, the Irish legislation on planning permission will be enforced probably before that.