Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-06-Speech-3-105"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTES2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991006.3.3-105"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-06-Speech-3-1062
lpv:speaker	lp:Georges Berthu2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2000-11-22)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2001-01-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Canada (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; UEN (1999-07-20--2000-09-20)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, once again, when voting on the calendar of part-sessions for the year 2000, we have had to withstand an assault of amendments tending to reduce the length of the plenary part-sessions in Strasbourg. This behaviour is all the more intolerable as it is intended to invalidate an intergovernmental agreement almost before the ink is dry, i.e. Protocol No. 12, integrated into the Treaty of Amsterdam which has just been ratified by the various Member States. This arrangement, furthermore, was perfectly in line with the decision of the Court of Justice on 1 October 1997. Finding it impossible to reduce the number of part-sessions, opponents to Strasbourg are now seeking to reduce the number of days in each part-session, achieving the same result by a different route. This would be, in our opinion, just as much a violation of the spirit of the Treaty and that is why we are pleased to see that these amendments have been rejected. But let us also take this opportunity to recall our position of principle on the Brussels mini-sessions. These are, as the Treaty specified and as the Court of Justice reminded us, additional sessions – let me specify “additional” – which can be scheduled only if the normal Strasbourg part-sessions have been held regularly. The mini-sessions are thus additional sessions, obviously indicating, according to us, that they can be held only if the regular agenda for Strasbourg is overloaded. This being the case, it is clear that we cannot know as of today, when voting on the calendar for the year 2000, whether the agenda for the plenary part-session in November 2000, for example, will be overloaded and whether it will be necessary, therefore, to add a mini-session on 29 and 30 November, i.e. in more than one year’s time, in precisely fourteen month’s time. In taking such decisions, the European Parliament violates the spirit of the Treaties and I hope there will be governments capable of restoring order."@en1

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