Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-07-05-Speech-1-157"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Annual report of the Petitions Committee 2009 (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100705.19.1-157"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-07-05-Speech-1-1582
lpv:speaker	lp:Lena Kolarska-bobińska2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; REGI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with India (2009-09-30--2013-12-02)3 member; PETI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Platforma Obywatelska (2009-07-14--2013-12-02)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2009-09-16--2013-12-02)3 member; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2013-12-02)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the report shows very clearly just how important the Committee on Petitions and the whole system of petitions are to European democracy. It is there that we react to the everyday problems which people face, but something else which is very important is that the citizens tell us when European law is not being kept by institutions in Member States or by the Member States themselves. In the Committee on Petitions, we discuss these matters and reach conclusions about them, but afterwards, we have no idea if the Member States have taken note of our findings. Therefore, we do not have any real mechanisms for monitoring whether our work has produced any effect, or if our findings have been listened to and taken into account. In addition, it is difficult to perform monitoring functions if there is no follow-up and if we do not know what happens subsequently. Furthermore, it then happens that certain petitions start to come back to us and the complaints begin to be repeated. One such example is a petition from 2006, which has just reached us again in 2010, and we are going to consider it once more. The author was opposed to construction of the gas pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany, and pointed out the risks it carried for the natural environment. In 2008, the European Parliament adopted a report in which it called for construction of the Northern Gas pipeline on the Baltic seabed to be halted. Our committee insisted that the European Commission check if the assessment of the whole situation had been carried out thoroughly and if the European Commission had supervised the matter. It turns out that no monitoring was carried out, and the matter has come back to us again. So we need to think carefully and create a system for monitoring what happens to petitions once we have finished with them."@en1
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