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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I thank all those who have spoken and who have offered important contributions to the excellent work of the rapporteur.
I believe that EU action on fundamental rights and freedoms requires positive intervention and not only protection.
On behalf of the Commission, I would like to illustrate what the agency must not represent. It must not and cannot be a super court of law, or a new legislator, because the legislative function is entrusted to you, to the Commission and to the Council, and certainly not to the agency.
The agency must not and cannot be a bureaucratic structure for accusing the Member States, but rather an organisation serving all of the EU institutions, an effective organisation providing assistance to Member States and support for their policies. It must not be an organisation for solving isolated issues or for spreading controversy, as someone said. The agency can be none of those things.
I fully agree with those who said that we need European awareness directed towards the respect of fundamental rights and freedoms. Duplications with other organisations and bureaucratic inefficiencies must therefore be avoided. On this point, I believe that the work of the Council of Europe must be taken into consideration in the light of its far
reaching importance. We intend to agree upon a common line with the Council of Europe in order to avoid overlaps and to utilise its crucial experience.
Some people have reintroduced the subject of geographical competence: should its mandate be only inside the Member States or also outside them? We will devote particular attention to the debate and to the decision that will be adopted by Parliament, but I believe that, to begin with, the agency certainly can and must have geographical competence inside the Member States. This does not, however, exclude – with reference to candidate countries, for instance, or to those countries linked to Europe by the so
called neighbourhood policies – the possibility of action that does not consist of intervention, but of important monitoring efforts and of communicating information to this House.
I will conclude my speech by stressing the wholehearted desire of the Commission to maintain ongoing dialogue with Parliament, because it is unthinkable that, on such an important issue as fundamental rights, action should not be taken in direct and continuous contact with this House, paying attention to its opinions."@en1
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