Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-14-Speech-2-108"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Statement by Mr Prodi (continued)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990914.5.2-108"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-14-Speech-2-1092
lpv:speaker	lp:W.G. van Velzen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-09-01--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--1999-09-29)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, a number of hearings have taken place in which the tension between collective and individual responsibility could be felt. It is, of course, clear that the question of individual responsibility and how this new Commission will give it shape over the next few years, will become an important issue. Great stress has been laid on collective responsibility in the past, but if you read the Wise Men’s report, the last report that has just come out, then the situation has been rather different in practice, with cases being founded primarily on the principle of non-intervention. I am not concerned with your affairs, you are not concerned with mine, and ultimately no one takes responsibility. That too is the painful truth that has emerged. I believe that the need to exchange the non-intervention principle for real collective responsibility represents a challenge. How exactly do you give shape to this personal responsibility? I would in fact like to make the following proposition to Mr Prodi. He will produce an annual programme and this will, of course, include the things to be done within the various Directorates-General. Would it in fact be possible for an annual programme of this kind also to include a number of political obligations in terms of the results to be achieved by the various individual Commissioners? You would continue to be responsible as a collective entity, but even within this context you could specify the results that an individual Commissioner was to deliver that year in more precise terms. You could then address him or her on these issues afterwards. I would argue in favour of this. Then there is the unease over the question of whether it should not in fact be a number of Commissioners, i.e. one or more, against whom criminal proceedings are initiated. I take it for granted that Mr Prodi would ask a Commissioner against whom criminal proceedings have been initiated, to resign. I also take for granted, and this is also in the Wise Men’s report, the fact that if a Commissioner should be found to have knowingly supplied Parliament with false information, then this same Commissioner would depart."@en1

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