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"Mr President, at the Brussels Summit in December 2003, the Heads of State or Government agreed to domiciles for ten new agencies, including an agency for IT security. In the Øresund area, universities and business enterprises on both the Danish and Swedish sides formed a consortium and put forward proposals as to how good conditions could in practice be created for locating precisely this IT security agency in the area.
The Øresund region has a sound infrastructure, good international transport connections, very extensive IT facilities and strong environments for IT research and development. The universities would make facilities available so that the agency’s workers could have close contact with the research environments, and there was a desire to create buildings able to fulfil the agency’s demands. In short, here was an offer, in terms of location, that could guarantee a rapid start to the agency in an area easily able to attract qualified labour. I know there were other attractive environments in the offing in the Netherlands and Germany. What emerged from the efforts concerned, however? They were a waste of energy. The EU’s Heads of State or Government agreed that this agency should be situated in a town in Greece. I have nothing negative to say about Greece, but the decision-making process simply cannot be taken seriously. It is neither transparent nor comprehensible to the public.
I am therefore very pleased with the report we are debating today, for it lays down a list of important and clear principles about the way in which decisions concerning agencies should be made in the future, about their operational frameworks and about how they should be placed in relation to the EU’s institutions, and I wish to congratulate Mrs Garrett on the good outcome. The decision concerning a new agency must be transparent and based on analyses of advantages and disadvantages. It must be the basis of a strong professionalism, and setting up an agency must not be a short cut to increasing administrative expenses. It is important for the Commission to have ongoing responsibility and for Parliament to have the role of supervisory power and not be governed by the agencies. The Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party’s amendments are to emphasise this, and I very much hope that there will be broad support for these proposals."@en1
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