Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-18-Speech-4-053"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Internal OLAF investigations2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991118.4.4-053"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-18-Speech-4-0542
lpv:speaker	lp:Herbert Bösch2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (1999-09-16--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; CONT (1999-07-21--2001-12-11)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, two questions need to be answered with regard to the new proposal in the Napolitano report. The first question is: is the proposal in accordance with the rules of the OLAF European Parliament and Council Regulation of 25 May 1999? And the second question is: is the proposal in accordance with the interinstitutional agreement between Parliament, the Council and the Commission? The answer to the first question is an obvious “yes”. The proposal is in accordance with the Regulation. The answer to the second question is not so easy. It was the intention of the agreement to find a solution to the whistle-blower problem, that is to say, to the question of what an official should do if he obtains knowledge of fraud or clues suggesting corruption but – for whatever reason – does not want to confide in his superiors. We have said that he should then approach OLAF directly. This possibility is now excluded in the proposal before us in the case of Members of this House. That is justified because the Members are protected in a special way by the Protocol on Privileges and Immunities in the performance of their duties. This protection goes further than the protection enjoyed by the Members of the EU Commission through this Protocol. My concern is only that the proposal that officials should approach the President of the Parliament directly, will create more problems than it solves. It is foreseeable that the press will then regularly ask: How many cases are there and which ones? If there are none, they will say that they have intimidated their officials to such an extent that nobody trusts himself or herself any more. If there are some, then they will try to drag each of these cases into the spotlight. I would have preferred to take up the original proposal by the Committee on Budgetary Control in its opinion for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, in which this whole series of questions is ignored and only the rights and obligations of the Members is covered. That would have left us time to consider other questions in peace. I believe, nevertheless, that given the difficult circumstances, Mr Napolitano has drawn up a very good report and I should like to support him in the vote this lunchtime."@en1

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