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Comment by Matt Southall, Acorn for Western Mail - March 2007
By the end of the Assembly elections the new Government of Wales Act will be in force, offering us further opportunity for positive change.
For the first time ever the Assembly will be able to seek entirely new powers to make its own law for Wales in a series of devolved areas such as economic development, education and training, environment, health, highways and so on. The challenge for the Assembly will be how it uses these new powers to make a real difference.
In terms of business, this means using its influence to give Wales a worldwide competitive advantage, by streamlining the decision-making process to provide Welsh-based companies the economic conditions to flourish and react smarter and swifter to both the local and the global opportunities and threats that lie ahead. The alternative is that economic opportunities could be lost in process and as a nation we will not act quickly or efficiently enough.
Smothering this new opportunity in red-tape therefore absolutely has to be avoided.
If the new Assembly administration continues to be innovative and quick-thinking, the Assembly will be able to use the Act to give enterprise throughout Wales the opportunity to catapult us up the worldwide economic league table.
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