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". – Mr President, I thank all the Members of Parliament for their great interest in and support for this proposal. The Commission did its best to take into account the comments from your side.
As to what will happen next, it is very important that we respect the spirit of the communication where we say that the forum now has a key role to play. In the forum all stakeholders will come together and reach conclusions and then we will make an assessment. If we now pre-empt the conclusions, before the forum is set up, we will not be acting in a proper way.
Secondly, corporate social responsibility – the whole idea was launched years ago by Jacques Delors when he turned to businesses and asked for their support and contribution to agreed European objectives. It has been a voluntary activity. It is very important that this activity should be fully taken into account when organising future work, including fora. I am sure that Mrs Diamantopoulou is much more familiar with the work of the Dublin Institute and its experience in that field and I am sure the Commission is ready to take that into account.
As far as the ethical criteria for Community funding are concerned, it would be totally unthinkable that any Community funding could be provided on the basis of criteria which do not fully respect the ethical standards which we share in our Treaty and our values. If there are some cases which appear to show the opposite, we must act accordingly."@en1
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