Another said member countries feel the Commission should have kept a coordinating role rather than simply offering them the choice of sticking with winter or summer time. Under the Commission’s plan, countries need to notify Brussels by March 31, 2019 what they want to do, ahead of what could be the final bloc-wide clock change.
That means capitals need to move quickly in deciding their position. Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc said in September that Portugal, Cyprus and Poland are leaning toward summer time, while Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands prefer winter time, although no position has yet been fixed.[...]
The Commission argues its case for a speedy lawmaking progress is due to the overwhelming response to a public consultation on the issue. Some 84 percent of 4.6 million respondents to the survey came out in favor of scrapping the system, which has been an EU standard since 1996.
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