Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-27-Speech-3-039"
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"Mr President, first of all an observation about the Convention which begins tomorrow with a draft agenda that is completely unacceptable. Mr Giscard d’Estaing will adopt a position on whether MEPs’ proposals are good enough to be translated and debated. Every MEP must naturally be entitled to make proposals and have them translated, put on the agenda and, finally, voted on. Today our delegation has obtained the fifth draft agenda. We are not familiar with the first four, and I would therefore ask our own President to ensure that, in future, we are given all the documents as soon as they arrive in Parliament.
Turning now to the Commission President, Mr Prodi. I see that the Commission is opposed to a competence catalogue which is able to place limits upon the EU’s activities. In that connection, I should like to ask Mr Prodi whether, at least, the debates in the Convention might not be prepared for by putting forward proposals as to what might be transferred back to the Member States if, for example, there was an obligation to halve the number of laws. To draw up a competence catalogue, knowledge of each individual area is required such as only the Commission and the national governments have at their disposal.
Finally, I should just like to thank Mr Prodi for the fact that, two years after the decision, we can now obtain agendas and Minutes from meetings of the Commission. That is major progress."@en1
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