Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-24-Speech-3-121"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Council reform2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011024.5.3-121"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-24-Speech-3-1222
lpv:speaker	lp:Lennart Sacrédeus2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2001-10-10--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, people have a right to know how their representatives in government have acted and voted in the Council. It is entirely unacceptable in a democracy for laws to be made behind closed and bolted doors on behalf of 380 million people and without there being any public scrutiny. The most important position adopted in the European Parliament’s report on Council reform is therefore to be found in Paragraph 26, concerning the need for openness and stating the European Parliament’s request that, when the Council acts as legislator, both the deliberations and the votes should be in the public domain, as well as Parliament’s particular request that, at the beginning and end of all legislative procedures, public debates be held in accordance with Rule 8 of the Council’s Rules of Procedure and that Rule 9(1) of the Council’s Rules of Procedure be implemented. It also states that the results of votes and the explanations of vote referring to legislative texts must be published. Through this future openness, the European Union will be democratised. It will lead to greater pressure being exercised by electorates and to greater supervision of the Council by national parliaments. It is about time! In turn, that will lead to growing demands for a concentration of the EU’s tasks and the need to limit the EU’s powers of decision-making. In other words, the report we are adopting today will have long-term consequences. I believe that we are thus coming significantly nearer the objective formulated by former Commission President Jacques Santer in 1995: Do fewer things, but do them better."@en1

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