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"Mr President, in one minute one cannot say much, so I am going to take this opportunity to summarise.
Firstly, I wish to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Lambert, for taking up all our proposals in the debate. There are therefore not even any amendments.
Secondly, I wish to say that at this stage nobody doubts that the Committee on Petitions and the Ombudsman make an extremely important contribution to compliance with Community law. We see this every day in the Committee on Petitions.
Like Mrs Hautala, I am therefore very happy that the Committee on Petitions has survived the attempts to remove it, since, as well as demanding compliance with Community law, it is the committee which is closest to the citizens. It is the committee which makes the institutions most visible to the citizens.
The greatest problem is probably the long procedure which follows a complaint by a citizen. The citizen has to study Community law in order to present a petition, and then any response is delayed month after month.
The most important petitions deal with social and environmental issues, which are the matters of most concern. On some occasions, Mr President – and I will end here – when a complaint involves the eviction of a citizen or the destruction of a natural area, the response arrives when it is too late to deal with the matter. The speeding up of the process is therefore an important issue which has been taken up by Mrs Lambert."@en1
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