Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-26-Speech-3-122"

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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	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030326.7.3-122"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-26-Speech-3-1232
lpv:speaker	lp:Diana Wallis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, like everybody else, I too would like to pay tribute to our two rapporteurs for their cross-party working. Indeed, I must say that when Mr Kinnock referred to a family reunion I feel like something of an interloper. We wanted to ensure that the ELDR voice was heard tonight, heard to congratulate our rapporteurs and the Commissioner and to say that we very much support the work that is being done in this reform process. It is a recognition that we are moving towards a modern civil service for Europe and a proper career structure for those who work in it. There perhaps has to be a certain irony that we, as legislators, spend much of our time demanding change and modernisation of those we legislate for. Now are putting our own House in order. I will not rehearse all the many good things that other speakers have referred to that rightly find their place in the Regulations. But I would like to say something about the pension question. I am grateful to the Commissioner for his very long and worthy answer to the oral question, and I would like to underline what he said. Acquired rights and legitimate expectations of existing staff must be paramount and that must be honoured. The other matter to which I would like to draw attention – and I am sorry that it seems that, whilst there is sympathy, it will not find full recognition – is that of the position of our parliamentary assistants. Amendments Nos 58 and 59 are there to try to regularise and give status to those who serve us as individual MEPs. This is something that is long overdue and has to find its place, eventually, in the mechanisms and workings of this House."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-09-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (2003-03-06--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-05-08--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Wallis (ELDR )."1

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