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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Statement by Mr Prodi2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990914.1.2-031"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-14-Speech-2-0322
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean Saint-josse2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2001-07-01)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2001-06-11)3 co-chair; EDD (1999-07-20--2002-07-02)3 unknown; Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the problem today is not to judge the Commission programme but the operation of the institution. You said, President Prodi, that we must get past the crisis of last year and that we should turn the page. Yet you have not, in our opinion, learnt the lessons of the crisis. For, in spite of the recommendations of the first report of the Committee of Independent Experts backed up by the second report which has just been published, no serious action has been undertaken to modify the methods and modes of operation of the Commission. Thus, the new Commission includes four Commissioners who were part of the former, recently disowned team. Although they were not individually implicated, they did give their support to the incompetence of the entire Santer Commission and its lack of collective responsibility. In addition, the Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities deplores the fact that the essential reform of the Commission has been entrusted to a member of the former team. At the time of the hearings of the future Commissioners, the EDD Group, of course, noted the quality of the majority of these Commissioners while criticising some centralist tendencies. We would like to see a change in culture and democratisation of the existing system, as well as greater consideration for Parliament. At present, for instance, it is not possible to request the resignation or non-renewal of one individual Commissioner without implicating the Commission as a whole or without causing an overt crisis. The cultural revolution which you announced, Mr President, is not in sight. Bad practice is allowed without sanction, dysfunction in the system is allowed to continue. The work of Parliament is, furthermore, flouted by dubious practices. The second report of the Committee of Independent Experts discussed in the plenary part-session on Monday has still not been delivered, or has only just been delivered, to the majority of Members of Parliament, thus preventing us making a serious study of it. In these circumstances, the six CPNT Members, and the whole of the EDD Group, will be voting against the appointment of the Prodi Commission in order to denounce a system which is deeply undemocratic."@en1

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