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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is customary for a speaker to congratulate the rapporteurs and this is something that I am very happy to do. I would like to congratulate them all, with one exception. I shall not name the person, since we are all friends and acquaintances here, but I cannot congratulate one rapporteur who has had his report adopted unanimously and who is tabling four amendments on behalf of his group. I do not think that this is acceptable behaviour – and I shall say no more – because, when they see the name of the rapporteur, Members will think that he has made technical amendments to a text that received a unanimous vote. I believe that a rapporteur should be honest with his fellow Members and with himself.
He drafts a report, which is unanimously adopted by the members of his committee – of which I am one – and then I notice that he has tabled, on behalf of his colleagues, some amendments that have a different aim. I think that this behaviour is totally unacceptable and I now urge my fellow Members and the political groups to reject these amendments. A Member cannot be both rapporteur and the author of amendments – he is either one or the other. I agree with tabling amendments to other reports, but not to one’s own report. That is why I regret that I am not able to congratulate this Member on his work.
With regard to the other reports, I would like to raise two further points.
The first point is to Mrs Eluned Morgan, a dear friend. This is 2002, the third millennium: the world is making progress, facts of law are often set in stone, so why persist in refusing the 1996-97 discharge to the smallest institution in the European Union? What will our citizens think when they find out that we have granted discharge to all the institutions, but we are delaying discharge from seven or eight years ago to the Economic and Social Committee? We have blamed and accused ECOSOC for the facts that came to light and enough is enough. For goodness’ sake, spare us the embarrassment of being haunted by this scandal, because if we must be haunted by a scandal – I assure you, Eluned – we can all drag up past scandals all over again. This is not the right approach.
Lastly, regarding the report by Mr McCartin – whom I would like to congratulate in particular – I want to stress that we can, of course, go over all the cases in all the Member States and highlight them, but we must not get hung up on specific cases. I therefore call for paragraph 60 to be deleted immediately and I strongly urge the Members to amend the words in paragraph 60 which relate to a Member State that I hold in great esteem."@en1
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