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"Mr President, as this House will have understood from what you said, Coreper decided to split the Commission’s proposal into two legal instruments: one regulation under Article 199, to which codecision applies, to cover political foundations and campaigning, and another regulation under Article 279, which means simple consultation of Parliament and the Court of Auditors to cover the financial derogations.
The Commission opposed that splitting of its proposal for sound legal reasons, but also for political reasons. The decision introduces uncertainty as regards timing, when we want the proposal to enter into force before the end of this year so that the foundations can be fully functional before 2009. That was the whole idea behind the proposal. We also think that the whole proposal should be approved by codecision, under Article 199 of the Treaty. We regret, therefore, that Coreper decided, against the Commission’s will, to reduce Parliament’s role in an issue intimately related to Parliament’s business, namely the financing of the political parties.
Just 36 hours after the Committee on Constitutional Affairs approved by a very large majority the Commission’s proposal, Coreper decided to follow a route which departed from that of the Commission and of Parliament.
However, our destination, I hope, remains the same: approval of the substance of our proposal before the end of this year."@en1
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