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Mr President, Commissioner, I will limit myself to answering the questions that have been asked, the question from the rapporteur, Mrs Maij-Weggen, as to whether the new decisions overrule the so-called Solana decisions; the answer is yes, they do.
As far as the committee on an institutional level is concerned, I would reiterate that the Council has no objections at all to this committee starting work; the only question is whether it will be beneficial for the presidents to meet and take the decisions? If it is a question of general principles, I do in fact believe that it will have to be the presidents who do this, although this is only my personal point of view. The solution I have outlined does in fact provide for this. The only thing that I personally do not regard as a favourable development is the situation where the presidents would become a kind of court of appeal, as it were, if a common decision not to permit access to a certain document or a certain type of document has been taken at the highest official level. I think that the result will be like a game of ping-pong right up to the highest official level. I would, however, like to emphasise that the political level is of course always accessible and politically responsible for what the official level decides, including what the highest official level decides. I do not understand the distinction that some of you are making, as if the official level should by definition not be responsible and the political level should be to the greatest possible degree. This is not the case; this is not my philosophy; it may be yours, but I do not share it. I think that we must take another clear look at these things.
It has been pointed out that there are a number of Council documents relating to justice and home affairs that have not yet been included in the Register. That is right. We are waiting for the Rules of Procedure on guaranteeing the security of documents, which your Parliament has yet to vote on. Until such time as this has been done, we find it particularly difficult to make highly sensitive documents accessible, even to your worthy institution."@en1
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