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"Mr President, when, in 1999, the Commission President promised us access to agendas and minutes in connection with the Commission’s meetings, officials with excessively centralising tendencies immediately set about putting together new agendas with fewer points, together with distinctly pared down minutes, while the real agendas and the most complete minutes remained secret for a number of years. The Prodi Commission also promised us a comprehensive annual programme, stating the legal basis for every individual piece of draft legislation. The countries also agreed to let the national parliaments check specifically whether the principle of subsidiarity was being observed and have the opportunity of showing the yellow card within six weeks. Moreover, a public debate on the annual programme would then take place in each individual parliament.
The Danish Parliament went further and wanted to allow each individual specialist committee to carry out its own check on compliance with the principle of subsidiarity. This was almost too good to be true, but then, true to form, the officious centralisers in the Commission made it impossible to read the programme. No national parliaments can assess what is to happen next year. The legal basis has been removed, so it is impossible to see whether the EU is planning a harmless resolution or a binding regulation. The proposals are not arranged according to subject, as in budgets and statute books. The chapters now invented are called prosperity, solidarity and security. All the descriptions have been through an Orwellian office for newspeak, so all future initiatives benefit everyone and inconvenience no one.
Every year, between 2 000 and 4 000 pieces of draft legislation are adopted, but the annual programme has only included 32 such pieces and 64 other proposals in the annual programme. One hundred and eighty-two other pieces of draft legislation and 295 other initiatives have also been mentioned. Why may we not see everything the Commission intends to propose for the coming year? Again, Mr Barosso, let us have a complete and detailed work programme, arranged chapter by chapter and stating the legal basis for each individual proposal. Let us see it set out on the Internet and get the debate under way on what we cannot decide on effectively ourselves and are therefore trying to resolve through the EU or other international fora. That debate is a very practical one, but can only be serious if it is based on the full and unadorned annual programme."@en1
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