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Mr President, I will be very brief, not least because we are behind schedule and the European Parliament needs to continue its work with all speed. I will just make a few brief points, the first of which is addressed to Mr Barón Crespo. We have been looking into the problems in Galicia very carefully and are continuing to do so. Commissioner de Palacio has already visited the area, Commissioner Wallström is going there tomorrow and Commissioner Fischler has already recommended the measures that should be taken. Most importantly, we are summoning and coordinating all our resources so as to be able to take the broadest, most cohesive action possible. We can confirm that, in our opinion, this incident could and should have been avoided. We must therefore address this matter as thoroughly as possible because, if similar incidents occur in the future, it will be our responsibility. The Commission has already put pressure on the Member States to limit the circulation of obsolete vessels, and we will continue to work on that.
A few very brief comments. I would like, first of all, to thank you for your enthusiastic support for our proposals, for your enthusiastic support for the Community method and for your understanding of the very simple fact that this is not a final proposal – it is neither the Commission’s initial nor its final proposal – it is a major step forward which will allow us to discuss the issues together. The points on which there is dissent are extremely important points which we will have to discuss. As regards what Mr Brok said, for instance regarding the issue of the Commission being accountable to both the Council and Parliament, this is an area we need to explore, but we believe that it is fully in line with what he called the Montesquieu rule, although it is true that, should the Council have to adopt measures affecting the Commission, in that case, the President of the Commission would not be part of the Council and the confusion described by Mr Brok would be avoided.
There is, moreover, a common concept underlying these proposals, and it is the concept of countries and peoples: we have taken a coherent, fully cohesive approach in this regard. In this respect, we often find that we are in almost complete harmony with the Benelux document – not that we developed this approach together, we just seem to have the same perspective on these issues, the same belief that this is a union of nations and peoples, or, as Mr Méndez de Vigo rightly says, of citizens, and that is the approach we are pursuing.
I will not go into specific points because I know you are pushed for time. I would just stress one essential point: the Charter of Fundamental Rights. I can confirm that the Commission intends to propose that the Charter be integrated into the future Constitution.
Indeed, we have already proposed this in the feasibility study I commissioned, and we demonstrated that it is entirely feasible. As regards this feasibility study, I would stress that it is just a technical working document: it was not submitted for the Commission’s approval and it was not discussed. It is a feasibility study which is an extremely useful working document. To avoid it being confused with the document we have proposed and endorsed in the Commission, I will not distribute it at the Convention today either: it will be posted on the Internet immediately afterwards, like all the working documents we have used during this phase. I assure you that this is a working document, nothing more, nothing less: just a working document."@en1
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