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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the alignment of the so-called horizontal regulation to the new provisions of the Treaty is based on a classification into delegated powers and implementing powers regarding the provisions adopted by the Commission pursuant to that regulation. After carefully scrutinising the Commission proposal, based on the criteria defined for the two types of act, respectively Articles 290 and 291, we identified areas where the conditions for delegated acts were met, and then examined the proposal in terms of the conditions for implementing acts.
In the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI), we tabled a few amendments on the conditions of the delegation, its period, the timeframes for objecting to a delegated act, the extension of that period, committee procedures, in accordance with the common understanding on practical arrangements, and the use of delegated acts, adopted by the Conference of Presidents on 3 March 2011, and Regulation No 182/2011 of Parliament and the Council laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers.
In this area, I recall one of the points of disagreement with the Council was the wish to use implementing acts in situations where, under the Treaty, these would be the most logical and appropriate tool. I believe that this Parliament, for its part, cannot surrender control of such important and sensitive issues such as transparency, Article 40A, or penalties for beneficiaries.
We have to admit that these alignment reports are a litmus test for a new working method that needs to be established between Parliament, the Council and the Commission, but which must be as effective as possible, according to a complex schema of competences that I hope will always and, in any case, converge towards the implementation of effective means for the development of European agriculture. In procedural terms, the majority required within the Council to block an implementing act is exactly the same as for a delegated act. The Council’s resistance to using delegated acts is therefore not justified and, if maintained, would be an unnecessary obstacle to the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).
I must also say that we have proposed some items, which we believe are an improvement but, just like decommitment at national level, they failed to meet with the approval of the Commission and the Council, and will therefore again be the subject of negotiation and confrontation regarding horizontal regulation of CAP reform. The lack of agreement regarding the alignment of horizontal regulation led us to call on plenary to vote so that, as the Chair of AGRI, Mr De Castro, said, we may have greater bargaining power and take a firm stand from Parliament on this issue.
This report, as well as others addressed so far, have, in any case, been an important moment for this Parliament, which, for the first time, through codecision, is actively involved in defining the new agricultural policy. It was not just a simple process of displacement, as claimed by many, but a serious awareness among my colleagues on the AGRI Committee of how well the CAP instruments have operated so far, so these instruments have to be brought up to date for the new reform through appropriate tools and constructive corrections.
I wanted to close with a reference: we have seen through a long series of trialogues the difficulty of finding an agreement on alignment. It was a missed opportunity which could cause us to waste time during the next approval process for common agricultural policy reform."@en1
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