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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Reform of the Commission2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001129.9.3-154"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-29-Speech-3-1552
lpv:speaker	lp:Stefano Zappala'2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3,3 vice-chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees for relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-02-11)3,3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3,3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Forza Italia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, with the plan to reform the Commission, we are progressing towards the new European institutions: new in that changes were made to the old institutions following the problems which arose during past management and on the basis of the lengthy, exhaustive and in many places complex report of the independent experts. As in the case of anything new which changes established situations, care and precision are clearly necessary. Those with legislative responsibility cannot, and must not, let themselves be influenced by emotion and must not accept proposals which, although the product of brilliant minds, do not follow the principle of representativeness. The experts, as such, are specialists, but the legislator cannot be either their obedient servant or another expert: he must hear, consult, reflect and then produce on his own initiative, or else he may as well give up politics and leave law-making to the experts. We would point out that part of the reform, which was unwisely adopted in September last year in line with the experts' proposal, was then rejected by the Court of Justice. The entire structure of the Commission, which is a fundamental institutional body of the Union's current system, implements European Union policy as willed by Parliament and the Council. Parliament must succeed in reforming the appropriate and necessary parts of the Commission without undue influence from outside, in order indeed to guarantee efficiency and transparency but also to make those who work there more aware of themselves, of what they are, of what they do and for whom they work. As I see it, there is no structure of greater importance or substance in the world: 15 nations, soon to become 20 or more, an entire continent; the most industrialised part of the globe thrives in the Union and, therefore, in the Commission through its structures. The officials working in the Commission and Parliament must be top quality, aware of this and paid accordingly. They must work but they must also receive all the guarantees and prerogatives appropriate to their job. They must be accountable but not subjected to humiliation. If we give due recognition to those who have to be good, hard workers in order to be here, we will achieve excellent institutions. Otherwise, everything will regress and the same problems may well arise as in the past, those very problems which have prompted us to carry out these reforms."@en1

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