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"Mr President, I too would like to congratulate Mrs Maij-Weggen. However, as regards the future, there may be something missing from the list of documents to be made public, for I feel that the question of audiovisual recordings is fundamental and that we should make increasing use of them in Parliament. In my opinion, we should make it compulsory for audiovisual recordings to be made of committee work as well – the costs are not excessive – and then treat the recordings as documents to be made public and made available on the Internet.
This is a key point. Our meetings have to be public under the Rules of Procedure. However, this is only the theory: we know that, in practice, a European citizen walking into Parliament off the street would not be allowed to attend our meetings without an invitation.
Publishing audiovisual recordings of our work on the Internet is a key form of publicity for our institutions. Moreover, with the Stenmarck report which we are going to debate tomorrow, we are already addressing the issue of budget cover from Parliament’s point of view. I will tell you now that, tomorrow, together with 55 Members of all the political groups, we are going to table a resolution calling, not least, upon the members of the European Convention to introduce a Treaty reform enshrining the right of access to all the public meetings of our institutions in the Treaties: the right of access, including access via the Internet, to all the meetings and democratic instruments of the European Union.
I feel that this is the way to go, for it will enable Parliament to fully exploit new technologies to publicise its work."@en1
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