Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-17-Speech-4-056-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-02-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission expert groups and balanced representation and transparency (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110217.5.4-056-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-02-17-Speech-4-057-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Monica Macovei2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to thank the Commissioner for his response. I am glad that I am speaking after him. I would like to say that we would rather look to the present and the future than back to the past. We would rather see bigger steps being taken towards transparency. I join with my colleagues on this question and recall that Parliament has asked the Commission to take action to ensure the balanced representation of interest groups in the membership of expert groups. As the Commissioner mentioned, we have a revised framework. In our view, however, there are still major shortcomings which undermine people’s confidence. I will mention some of them. Procedures to detect and eliminate conflicts of interest are missing. We need a procedure to detect and eliminate these. It is not enough to send a letter to the experts asking them to decide if they have a conflict of interest or not. Professional secrecy clauses have been extended beyond Commission staff to include members of expert groups so that, instead of moving towards more transparency, we are moving towards more secrecy. The lack of transparency persists with regard to the disclosure of expert groups’ documents. Next, small and medium-sized enterprises and civil society organisations are not properly represented. Safeguards against industry dominance are insufficient. There is a risk of ‘corporate capture’ of expert groups. So we ask for all information about the existing expert groups to be placed on a website in a timely manner, including information about membership and members and all calls for applications. I take this opportunity to insist again on the need for transparency concerning EU fund beneficiaries. Finally, I would like to say that transparency ensures good governance and trust in the institutions. If we want people’s trust, more and full transparency is the only way to go."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; CONT (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partidul Democrat-Liberal (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2010-03-29--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Monica Luisa Macovei,"1 "on behalf of the PPE Group."1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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