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"Madam President, my Group is to vote against the framework agreement. We are certain that a proper reading in the committees and further negotiation with Mr Prodi himself will produce a better result which we shall be able to vote in favour of. I should like to begin by correcting a misunderstanding. We do not want to prevent the Commission from being able to deliberate in confidence. It is important for every authority to have an internal phase of its proceedings in which any ideas may be discussed and any proposals appear on the table, without its being obliged to make them public. The Commission should also be entitled to have confidential drafts on the table throughout the preparative phase. Our demand to exercise supervision applies from the time when the Commission sends documents out or in the case of their being leaked, as happens not infrequently. If a proposal is no longer within the confines of the Commission, then the latter ought not to be able to refuse to let us see it. In that way, there would be equality for all, and that is not the case with the framework agreement. There are two humiliating situations in particular which we should like to avoid. In the legislation process, we sit, as we all know, in committees and debate draft bills. Behind us sit students, interns and people from the Permanent Representations with the confidential drafts marked ‘restrained’, while we MEPs cannot obtain them. The lobbyists, who sit behind, also have them, but we elected representatives cannot obtain them. It also often happens that we read in the newspaper about a leaked Commission proposal. We are asked to comment on it, but we cannot obtain a copy. It is a humiliating situation which is completely unacceptable. When he took up his post, Mr Prodi promised to bring this situation to an end. We should be legally entitled to obtain documents when they are no longer within the confines of the Commission. And it is as individual MEPs and rapporteurs that we should have this legal entitlement and not by going down on our knees before the President. What is more, a President might come along to whom one preferred not to kowtow."@en1
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