Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-13-Speech-1-049"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Second Report of the Independent Experts2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990913.5.1-049"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-13-Speech-1-0502
lpv:speaker	lp:Gerhard Hager2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-22--1999-10-04)3 unknown; Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2003-02-12)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--1999-10-04)3 member; NA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the second report of the Committee of Wise Men is an important contribution, while not containing too many big surprises. It deals in the main almost inevitably with the reform proposals which we today regard as being necessary. Of course, I cannot go into detail on all the recommendations contained in the report, but I would like to concentrate on one problem, namely that of individual responsibility. When the Wise Men’s report, which expressly does not draw a distinction between administrative and political responsibility, calls, inter alia, for the Commission President to have the authority to dismiss individual Commission members, then, to my mind this requirement does not do justice to the gentlemen’s agreement between President Prodi and the Commissioners-designate. In any case, as called for in the report, what is required is a relevant contractual regulation designed to provide a firm basis for a form of individual responsibility which is legally enforceable in serious cases. The agreement can only be a transitional regulation. No one has so far been able to explain to me, and the report in question has not helped in this regard either, how those Commissioners who are standing again have contributed to exclusive collective responsibility, something which has been criticised by us but which is legally stipulated. In view of this de facto rejected responsibility, it is now difficult however to take the explanations of the Commissioners seriously, i.e. that they would in future resign if requested to do so by the Commission President. With good reason, the report additionally calls for the Commissioners to be directly responsible to Parliament, but the gentlemen’s agreement also brings with it the danger that if we trust it, we could prevent ourselves from actually taking the necessary radical steps. That should certainly not be allowed to happen. I consider it absolutely necessary that the recommendations in this regard from the Committee of Wise Men be included in the programme for the next Intergovernmental Conference and be legally transposed, in spite of the explanations given by the designated Commissioners. That should be a considerable pillar for effective cooperation between the institutions from the point of view of citizens’ interests."@en1

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