The latest from Plain English Campaign - 04/29/05 02:06 PM
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The issue of Europe has been low on the agenda as far as the various UK election campaigns are concerned, but we at Plain English Campaign are determined to continue to fight against the curse of Eurobabble and gobbledygook in legislative documents.
The European Scrutiny Committee is a government body set up to assess the legal or political importance of each EU document. After reading one particular document, the Committee have appealed to the vice-president of the European Commission to improve the way it communicates with the public. One extract from a recent EU document reads:
“The complementarity between the Agenda and both the mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy and the sustainable development strategy makes it necessary to ensure close dovetailing with other Community policies on the internal market, industry, competition and trade. This approach implies taking full account of social and employment dimensions in other Community policies, and vice versa. The integrated Impact Assessment tool developed by the Commission provides a valuable methodological contribution. Accordingly, the Agenda draws its inspiration from the Constitutional Treaty, which proclaims the importance of an integrated approach.”
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk
The issue of Europe has been low on the agenda as far as the various UK election campaigns are concerned, but we at Plain English Campaign are determined to continue to fight against the curse of Eurobabble and gobbledygook in legislative documents.
The European Scrutiny Committee is a government body set up to assess the legal or political importance of each EU document. After reading one particular document, the Committee have appealed to the vice-president of the European Commission to improve the way it communicates with the public. One extract from a recent EU document reads:
“The complementarity between the Agenda and both the mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy and the sustainable development strategy makes it necessary to ensure close dovetailing with other Community policies on the internal market, industry, competition and trade. This approach implies taking full account of social and employment dimensions in other Community policies, and vice versa. The integrated Impact Assessment tool developed by the Commission provides a valuable methodological contribution. Accordingly, the Agenda draws its inspiration from the Constitutional Treaty, which proclaims the importance of an integrated approach.”
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk