Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-26-Speech-3-118"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Reform of Staff Regulations2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030326.7.3-118"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-26-Speech-3-1192
lpv:speaker	lp:Catherine Lalumière2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-07-29--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Parti radical de gauche (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists I should like to express my satisfaction with the work that has been carried out by our committees, and in particular by the rapporteurs, Mr Harbour and Mr Medina Ortega. Thanks to this work, the draft regulations drawn up by you, Commissioner, now constitute, together with the amendments which I hope you will accept, a balanced whole which should give the staff of our institutions regulations which bring together both tradition and modernity. Tradition is important, because we are very attached to the idea of preserving the great principles of a civil service which is independent of lobbies or other influences, a civil service which is competent and is recruited through objective and rigorous competitions, and a civil service which has rights and duties that are absolutely clear. We are also in favour of modernity, however. After more than thirty years of good and loyal service, the staff regulations for the European Civil Service were in need of serious reform. Having said that, every innovation has to be assessed in the light of the objectives being sought. For example, the use of a new category of staff, namely contract staff, however useful it may be, must not lead to the abuse of this formula, because that would run the risk of weakening recruitment conditions and would undermine the workings of our institutions. Moreover, although we can congratulate ourselves on the equilibrium that we have succeeded in reaching, it is still important that the Council should not disrupt this fragile equilibrium. My concern follows the Council’s reactions, in particular, to two important questions which are marginal to the regulations but which the Council wants to add to them in order to make an overall package. These two questions are, on the one hand, the multi-annual salary adaptation method and, on the other hand, and most important, the pension scheme. On this last point we are rather concerned, Commissioner, because we are seeing the Council link the adoption of the regulations to the adoption of a new pension scheme, whereas you yourself have not yet said anything precise about pensions, and we know how explosive this issue is. This is why several groups, including ours, have tabled an oral question about pensions, so that you can give us the information that we need before we give the definitive green light to the reform of the staff regulations."@en1

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