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"Mr President, this overhaul of our Rules of Procedure is intended to make them better in terms of efficiency, transparency and clarity. It is the result of a year-and-a-half’s work by a working group with a representative of every political group, helped by a task force at secretariat level that involved every parliamentary committee secretariat and the Legal Service of Parliament. It is therefore very much a consensual report and I pay tribute to the role played by Mr Rainer Wieland who chaired the working group, and indeed all the members of the working group. The bulk of what I propose to you today is very much consensual. It is an evolution, not a revolution. Nonetheless, although many of the rule changes are technical, there are quite a few that are of political significance. Let me list just a few very quickly.
We have rewritten the procedure for first reading agreements with the other institutions, to make them more transparent and to introduce safeguards. We have put into our rules the consequences of the Interinstitutional Agreement with the other institutions on Better Law-Making. We have put into our rules the changes to the procedure for hearings with Commissioners that we agreed in the context of my own report of last year. We have put together a considerable package on transparency, building on the work that Mr Giegold had done in preparation of a different report, and steering a course between what is desirable and what is legally possible to do through changes to the Rules of Procedure, rather than through legislation and, of course, bearing in mind that we have to get an absolute majority in this House to approve any such changes.
We have looked at the rules concerning the conduct of Members; we are prohibiting racist and xenophobic language in this Parliament. We have increased the penalties that can be imposed on Members who transgress our rules in this Parliament. We have rationalised the numerous thresholds in our Rules of Procedure for triggering different procedures, rationalising them to just three different thresholds. We have not raised the thresholds, by the way, and the most common threshold is the lower threshold. Nonetheless, we have brought greater clarity here. We have also made provision concerning membership of parliamentary committees such that when a Member leaves a political group and joins another one, which happens occasionally, the Group that he or she belongs to can replace that Member on the parliamentary committee that they left. This is particularly important, I think, for smaller groups who may only have one member of a committee and if that member leaves they are bereft of representation on that committee. So, overall, it is a wide package which I have the great honour to commend to the House."@en1
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