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"Madam President, I share with many in this Parliament major concerns about the way the Commission is currently treating this Parliament with regard to delegated acts, particularly in this file, but also on some others that I am working on, including EMIR and the reform of the derivatives legislation.
Brokering agreements over level one texts to make crucial decisions at level two and then bypassing Parliament either by not consulting us at all, as in this case, or by adopting decisions with such short deadlines that we in this House do not have time to comment on them, let alone be listened to and replied to, is suddenly becoming par for the course.
Comitology, delegated acts, implementing measures, regulated technical standards: these may be terms that my constituents in Wales have never heard of. But when the European federalist, Professor Geoghegan, states that 98 % of EU legislation is now done in this way and, by his estimation, fewer than 10 people in this Parliament and 50 people outside of Brussels understand the system, it is no wonder that people consider that EU decision-making is undemocratic.
The reasoning behind delegated acts and implementing measures is to make the legislation more flexible and to be able to adapt to change, which I theoretically agree with and support. However, if this is not done in a truly democratic way, respecting the spirit of the Treaty as well as the letter, then it really is no better than actually putting dictats into law.
Personally, I agree in principle with the concept that we actually need a measure on the financial sector liabilities added to the macro-economic scoreboard. However, there are many different ways of measuring this and given the views within the ESRB, they are different to those of the Commission. It does seem that unilaterally deciding to go ahead in this manner without proper consultation is yet another example of the Commission thinking it knows better.
If the EU wants to become relevant to its citizens in their everyday lives, this is not the way to go about it. We need to ensure that correct processes are adopted in order to prevent such an imbalance in treatment of a co-legislator and ensure some democratic scrutiny in this seemingly opaque procedure."@en1
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