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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank you warmly for offering me the opportunity to participate in this debate on the reform of the European Parliament’s Rules of Procedure and specifically the proposed revision of Rule 57, which takes up the agreement we have reached between the Commission and Parliament in relation to the methods for presenting our legislative and working programmes.
The contacts we have maintained throughout these months have allowed us to reach a solution for structuring a constructive dialogue on this issue, which is important. The text which the Committee on Constitutional Affairs proposes including in an annex to European Parliament’s Rules of Procedure respects the institutional role of the Commission and Parliament and honours the mutual commitments we have made over the last two and a half years.
I would firstly like to thank Mrs Malmström for her cooperation and constructive work – which has not always been easy, but the results of which have made it all worthwhile – in our debates and discussions, and that of the whole of the Parliament’s team and the representatives of the various political groups, since I believe that this has allowed us to achieve a proposal which I hope will be beneficial to the functioning of the European institutions.
The College of Commissioners has held in-depth debates on this matter and has agreed that the right of initiative laid down in the Treaties must be retained in its current form, with the collegial responsibility of the Commission. Furthermore, Parliament must be informed on time, and not only informed, but it must also be in a position to be able to contribute its ideas and suggestions on the best definition of Community policies. In this respect, I believe that the agreement, which I am not going to explain, since Mrs Malmström has done so magnificently, includes the ideal procedure for combining these elements.
As for Mr Corbett’s point, it is true; we should consider how we can involve the Council in this process. We will have to seek a formula which, of course, must be acceptable to the Council.
In any event, we in the Commission hope that this structured dialogue can focus our attention, as Mrs Malmström rightly said, on the political and strategic aspects in relation to the broad approaches of our action, with realism, as the new President of the European Parliament, Mr Cox, has also said on a previous occasion.
The Prodi Commission fully shares this objective and we want to prevent this process from becoming a mere bureaucratic accounting operation, which should not stop us from applying the relevant rigour, and the debates should be accompanied by general approaches and political considerations which, as has been said previously, can be turned into concrete proposals and political approaches.
I hope that, by means of this dialogue, we will discuss our political priorities for 2003, in order to define concrete courses of action for the enlarged Europe. In any event, the Commission, as it has been doing since 1999 when it came to office, will fully comply with the agreements with this Parliament and we hope that the trust and cooperation between the two institutions will lead to the better functioning of the institutions and that, furthermore, when the time comes we can also seek a formula to incorporate the Council as well.
Congratulations once again to Mrs Malmström. The discussions have been long but the final result has made it worthwhile. In any event, we will soon find out, because within a couple of months a first round of participations by all the Commissioners will begin – by means of the specialised committees – in relation to our future projects for next year."@en1
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