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"en.20120523.15.3-338-000"2
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"The right of inquiry is an important feature of Parliament’s supervisory powers. This right is exercised in many different ways by democratic parliaments throughout the world. In the majority of the EU Member States, the setting up of committees of inquiry is envisaged and regulated by the constitution, by law or by decree. Currently, the Treaty of Lisbon has modified the institutional balance of the EU and strengthened the political stature of Parliament. Article 14 TEU expressly stipulates that Parliament exercises political control. The Treaty also changed the procedure for determining the provisions governing the exercise of the right of inquiry. Whereas, in the past, it was a shared decision between the three main European institutions, the Treaty of Lisbon explicitly gives the right of initiative to the European Parliament. Nevertheless, it still has to obtain formal consent from the Council and from the Commission. As the European Parliament is not a court, it has no power in itself to impose penalties on individual citizens. Nevertheless, when all the Member States adopted the Treaty of Lisbon, they also agreed to give it the right to investigate contraventions and maladministration in the implementation of Union law. I believe that this should bind them to oblige their own administrative systems to give assistance to any possible EP committees of inquiry. I also consider it to be correct that the final power of decision, regardless of the powers conferred on the committees of inquiry to perform their duties, ultimately rests with Parliament."@en1
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