Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-09-Speech-3-160"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-03-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of the European Council (Brussels, 22-23 March 2005)2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050309.15.3-160"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-03-09-Speech-3-1612
lpv:speaker	lp:Jens-Peter Bonde2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Conference of Presidents (2004-07-20--2006-12-12)3 chair; IND/DEM (2004-12-06--2008-05-08)3 substitute; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen - Mod Unionen (2004-07-20--2008-05-08)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2008-05-08)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank the Commission for agreeing to complete openness concerning 3 000 working groups. For the first time, we can now see the list of the groups. It can be found on the Commission’s website or, even easier, can be downloaded from my website at bonde.com. Mrs Wallström, the Vice-President of the Commission, yesterday agreed that we can also have the names of the participants. Thank you. Now, we shall soon see whether those advising the Commission on smoking are from the tobacco industry or from groups working to combat cancer. I would also like to thank the Commission for agreeing that in future we can find out about all the contributions from the Commission to the Council of Ministers and its working groups. Eighty-five per cent of all legislation is finally completed in 300 working groups and in Coreper. Until now, we have been excluded from the majority of this legislation. Now, we have been promised the greatest reform in openness to date. I am as happy as a little boy on Christmas Day, because I have been working towards such openness for many years. Thank you. It is almost too good to be true. Now it is your turn over in the Council. My dear Council of Ministers, can the Luxembourg Presidency not ask that the 300 working groups dealing with legislation be laid open to Parliament? It is humiliating that elected representatives must always beg for the documents in a corridor or from a lobbyist or from a student at one of the permanent representations, or from the ambassador or from the actual minister. When we sit on the committees and deal with the draft legislation, officially we have only the original draft from the Commission, while the Council’s working group is sitting looking at edition 17 – which we cannot legally obtain. Officials and trainees sit behind us at the committee meetings with the latest edition of the draft legislation, but what about the members of the committee themselves? We have the electorate’s vote, but we lack the confidence of the Council of Ministers. Now we will get the Commission’s new drafts while the legislation is being discussed. When will we have the opportunity to thank you in the Council for what would be the most natural thing of all? In democracies, those exercising power are responsible to the elected representatives; in democracies, there is nobody above or equal to the electorate and their directly elected representatives. Thank you, Mr President, especially if the Council will give us a little more to say thank you for."@en1

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