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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Special report by the European Ombudsman on Commission recruitment2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001116.14.4-230"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-16-Speech-4-2312
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulpu Iivari2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2001-05-13)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the job of the European Ombudsman was established in the Maastricht Treaty at the same time as the concept of citizenship of the Union was introduced. The Ombudsman looks after the public interest in the direction of the administration. The Ombudsman, Jacob Söderman, works, by virtue of his job description, for the people and in order for good administration to take root in the Union. We all know that there is still much to do. It is, however, vitally important to adopt good, open and effective administrative practice, so that the European Union will gain the support and confidence of its citizens more satisfactorily than it does at present. The Ombudsman’s report discussed this time regards the secrecy attached to the Commission’s recruitment procedure. The report contains recommendations that the Commission has already begun to implement. The rapporteur, Herbert Bösch, from the Committee on Petitions, states in the explanatory statement in his report that the principles that led to the Ombudsman’s recommendations proved to be the same as those adhered to by the European Parliament: correctness, transparency and the desire to create confidence. And that is how it should be. Parliament is a body elected directly by the people. Its job is legislation and to monitor the Union’s bureaucratic machine on behalf of the public. Parliament and the Ombudsman must therefore work for the same causes. The report by the Committee on Petitions states that the Committee approves the special report being discussed and, in particular, the point which states the desire to improve the impression the public gets of the institutions from our competitions procedures. The most important of Mr Söderman’s proposals is the right of applicants to have access to their corrected examination papers afterwards. The Committee says that the Commission has informed the Ombudsman it was implementing this recommendation as from the start of July 2000. In addition, the report urges all the institutions and bodies of the European Communities to allow applicants to have access to their corrected examination papers in future recruitment competitions, if they so request. My colleague, Mr Bösch, has already briefly presented here the amendments to the report he tabled. I hope they will be supported in Parliament."@en1

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