Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-14-Speech-1-020"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Agenda2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010514.3.1-020"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-14-Speech-1-0212
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicole Fontaine2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Union pour la démocratie française (1999-07-20--2002-06-16)3 president; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3
lpv:translated text	"Mrs Sauquillo Pérez Del Arco, I am profoundly grateful to you for having raised this issue, thereby giving me the opportunity to provide Members with vitally important information. I have to say that I was dying to mention it, but it would not have been possible for me to take the initiative on this subject myself. There is one essential point. The Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs wrote to me a few days ago in order to pass onto me the opinion of the Council of State. You will remember, ladies and gentlemen, that this was what we were waiting for. The Spanish government had raised the matter with the Council of State, and the latter has issued an opinion. This opinion, I have to say, confirms the legal caution that I believed we would have to exercise. In other words, the Council of State takes the view that the request for the waiver of immunity should be sent to us by the Spanish Ministry of Justice, and not directly by the Supreme Court. That is the position. Of course it is not for me to comment on the positions adopted by the courts of the Member States. I think that would lead us away from the matter in hand. It is quite obvious, Mrs Sauquillo, that for my part I am waiting to receive this request, one of these days, via the official channels, in accordance with our Rules of Procedure. If the appropriate authority, which in the view of the Spanish Council of State is the Ministry of Justice, if, as I say, the Ministry of Justice sends me a request for the waiver of the parliamentary immunity of the Members in question, and of other Members as well, I shall of course refer it immediately to the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, after having announced it in Parliament. I believe that matters are clear at the moment. Moreover, for many of us they have always been clear. They have been the subject of a certain amount of controversial debate, which I personally regret. However, please believe me when I say that I harbour absolutely no resentment whatsoever against any individual Member."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"President."1

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