Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-26-Speech-4-022"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Activities of the European Ombudsman (2001) Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions 2001-20022
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020926.1.4-022"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-26-Speech-4-0232
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the report submitted by the Ombudsman demonstrates that this is an important and necessary post. We must safeguard the financial resources of the Ombudsman’s office. This is something that is not always taken sufficiently seriously in Parliament’s Committee on Budgets. I will use the same figure of speech the former Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the former Soviet Union used referring to the present Chairman of the Russian Social Democratic People’s Party, Mikhail Gorbachov: the Ombudsman must have iron teeth. With regard to human resources management in the EU the Members of the Commission act as both prosecutors and judges. This is shown once again in the case of Martha Andreasen. It would be appropriate if the impartial Ombudsman were also to look into that person’s punishment. The present system does not provide legal protection. It would also certainly be worth the Ombudsman’s while to undertake an own-initiative enquiry and report with regard to the administrative practices of the European Central Bank. The bank’s openness and the transparency of its administration represent the worst standards in the EU. It is regrettable that the Ombudsman in his annual report should have to state that the EU institutions have failed both to put the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights into practice and implement the decision on the European Parliament’s good administrative behaviour. The remarks about administrative discrimination on the grounds of age or gender are particularly regrettable. In the annual report there are 21 photographs of the Ombudsman, and in most of them he has a gentle expression on his face. When it is a matter of a departure from good administrative practice the friendly exterior should deceive nobody. Our Ombudsman acts fearlessly, like Jaakko Ilkka in the Finnish Cudgel War, against the tyranny of the administrative nobility."@en1

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