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dcterms:Date	"2012-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common rules for direct support schemes for farmers - Support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development - Common organisation of agricultural markets and specific provisions for certain agricultural products - Financing of the common agricultural policy - Organic production and labelling of organic products - System of financing by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (debate)2
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lpv:speaker	lp:George Lyon2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, along with my colleague, Paolo De Castro, and others, I have had the misfortune to have been involved in the negotiations with the Council and the Commission on the horizontal file for over 18 months and under three different presidencies of the Council, and to date, we have little progress to show for all the effort that we have put in. At the heart of the problem is the Council’s view that every decision on secondary legislation should be made through implementing acts rather than delegated acts. I must remind the Council, although there is no one representing them here tonight to hear this debate, that implementing acts should be used solely for the purpose of the uniform application of non-essential elements of policies across the EU. However, the Council’s position seems to be that Parliament should have no say whatever over what the Commission does in secondary legislation. The Council’s position seems to be that we have no say; they have no recognition that Lisbon has changed the game, that power must now be shared, and that it is not business as usual. The Commission proudly claims that it is the guarantors of the Treaties, yet time after time in the negotiations on alignment, the Commission ends up siding with the Council and denying Parliament its rights under codecision. The Commission should be sticking up for the rights of Parliament and defending the correct interpretation of the Lisbon Treaty provisions. Commissioner, tonight I hear what you say about being sympathetic to our cause, but that is not borne out by our experience in the negotiations so far. Tonight, I think it is crystal clear from this debate that this Parliament will fight tooth and nail during the CAP negotiations to protect our powers under Lisbon, even if that means holding the final agreement on CAP reform to ransom until the Council and the Commission agree to a sensible compromise on this key issue of recognising this Parliament’s role in colegislation."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Liberal Democrats Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; AGRI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PECH (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; BUDG (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"George Lyon,"1 "on behalf of the ALDE Group."1
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