Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-05-Speech-2-085"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU external action priorities (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000905.7.2-085"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-09-05-Speech-2-0862
lpv:speaker	lp:Heidi Hautala2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3,3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 chair; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3,3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Vihreät (1999-07-20--2003-03-25)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, as the European Union assumes new powers we might expect that transparency in this matter and parliamentarian monitoring would increase at the same rate. Now, it would seem that the European security and defence identity is making dramatic progress in the wake of the Helsinki summit. It appears, however, that the Council has been resorting more and more to the intergovernmental process in this, so much so that it has threatened even to bypass the Commission, something quite unheard of, as far as I am concerned. The Commission must have a strong role to play in this process. Just like my colleague, Mr Cox, I too strongly condemn the fact that, during the summer recess, the Council produced very significant restrictions on the public’s right to gain access to documents relating to matters of security and defence. Obviously, nobody is claiming that confidentiality and even secrecy are not necessary from time to time, when it is a question, for example, of operational matters in defence policy. But the Council’s decision seems to be leading to a situation now where the whole development of the security and defence policy in the political sphere can no longer be properly monitored, being, as it were, beyond that. The public can no longer follow the development of security and defence policy, and neither can Parliament monitor it properly. We here in Parliament have discussed this situation, and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, in which I am involved in the discussion of the issue, is looking into whether Parliament should possibly take the Council to court on account of this decision, which is a clear violation of Parliament’s rights, and weakens our citizens’ already barely attainable rights of access to documents. I demand a clear explanation from the representative of the Council, and I would be very grateful if the Commission were also to comment on the situation."@en1

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