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The proposal for a decision on the implementing powers conferred on the Commission by the Council – prepared by the Commission itself – is in line with the wishes of the European Parliament, which has just warmly approved it. In fact, Parliament has long wanted to receive the right, on equal terms with the Council, to control implementing measures, at least for texts adopted by codecision.
This desire may be surprising because in many parliamentary democracies, including France, the elected assembly does not control in detail measures implementing laws, but simply, where appropriate, questioning the accountability of the government. Perhaps, however, the attitude of the European Parliament, primarily dictated by the desire to compete with the Council, reveals, despite itself, something entirely different: that the Commission is not a real government, and that Parliament itself is not a real parliament.
Today, after some progress, particularly in 1999, the Commission wants to take the process to its natural conclusion, and pressure the Council into giving Parliament fully equal control. It is forgetting just one thing: this equality is not provided for by Article 202 of the Treaty, which confers the power principally on the Council. That is why we voted against the proposal."@en1
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