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The Committee on Petitions fulfils an important remit in European Union life in that it offers public support to European citizens who feel they have been the victim of a breach of the law or deprived of their rights in their own country in a matter falling within the scope of Community law. At the same time, the committee’s lack of decision-making powers is a persistent source of frustration to petitioners and in many cases to committee members too. The most it can do is to rule that the European Commission, which holds the decision-making power, should not close the case prematurely. The Committee on Petitions played a very positive role, for example, in the case concerning the Beneš decrees, when the representative of the European Commission, applying a double standard many of us found incomprehensible, failed to recognise that confirming the validity of the Beneš decrees today was not just about reopening wounds relating to a closed chapter of history, but a serious violation of the fundamental rights that apply throughout the EU. The overwhelming majority of the Committee on Petitions – irrespective of party affiliations – rejected the Commissioner’s position."@en1
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