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"Mrs Maes, I almost totally agree with what you have just said. However, the current code of conduct was the only one possible. I can say this as I attended and participated in the negotiations on this code. The reality is that the code clearly gives no guarantees with regard to monitoring how the Member States interpret their responsibilities. Quite frankly, there has not been until this moment, within the European Union, a consensus on or even a majority inclination towards reconsidering this issue. The code of conduct was regarded at the time as a very important qualitative step forward in terms of the disparate practices of the Member States which existed at that time. The aim was to tie the various Member States to a basic set of principles and to the observance of certain standards, while still leaving them completely free in this matter. This is what is happening today. I realise that the code of conduct is very weak, it particularly does not have a binding nature and cannot go any further than a political sanction. Therefore, publicising this type of situation – and I am not just referring to the situation raised in the question – particularly where this is taken up by the media, will put healthy pressure on the Council. In this way the European Union will one day be able to guarantee that the practices of its countries and those involving certain types of lucrative activity will be in harmony with the principles which the EU claims to defend. This is the big test that the European Union and its Member States will have to face in the future."@en1
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