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"Mr President, my group will support Mrs Malmström's proposals, and I would also like to offer her our congratulations for the hard work she has put in for more than nine months and in negotiating intensely with the Commission.
Parliament and the Commission have long recognised that legislative planning is a matter of common concern. The Commission has the right of initiative. My group does not seek to change that. We have the right to call upon the Commission to make proposals already given to us in the Treaty. It has the right of initiative. We are a parliament that is master of its own timetable, unlike some national parliaments. We both therefore have an interest in reaching an understanding on the legislative programme coming up in any given year so as to plan our work, so as to exchange views on priorities, so as to reach agreement and convergence as much as possible. That has long been the case, but the actual procedures by which we have done it have not always been working satisfactorily, and I welcome this updating and rationalisation that has been put forward.
Given the number of times that we will be discussing and looking at the following year's programme in the different fora over a year, my one fear is that, if we are not self-disciplined, we will spend an enormous amount of time looking at what will come up well over a year ahead, without being very concrete. We must be self-disciplined and make sure that problem does not arise.
There is a ghost missing from this feast, namely the Council, and the role of the Council presidency. Council presidencies often present a programme to Parliament as if they were assuming executive office. Council presidents must remember that they are not taking over executive office when they become president of the Council. They are merely chairing the body which is the co-legislative body with Parliament for a short period of six months, with an inherited agenda. We must make sure that this legislative planning works without upsetting the whole balance of the system by delivering it in the wrong way."@en1
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