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"A major and historic decision was taken at the Copenhagen Summit. A number of issues of specific institutional interest to Parliament arose. I will inform you of those. These matters can be further explored by the groups in the debate with the Danish Presidency.
One is an agreement in principle that by the end of January we shall have worked our way through the procedures for the appointment of the 10 new Commissioners from the accession states, and for the appointment of the new Commission following the departure of the Prodi Commission. Work is already in hand regarding this matter. A number of suggestions were put forward by committees and groups, but we must close this process by the end of January. I would like to point out to the groups that by that time we need to bring closure to the calendar for the year 2004 on the issues of the appointment of the Commission, dates of election and our own internal procedures.
Secondly, we have an indication that there has been considerable progress – for which I thank colleagues – on drawing up an interinstitutional agreement on better regulation and law-making. We have a commitment in principle across the institutions to try to bring closure to this matter before the spring summit meeting in Brussels. We have several months to work through the remaining issues before the deadline. I put the groups and various committees involved in this matter on notice in respect of that.
Thirdly, a conclusion was reached that the European Convention should draw up its own final report in time for the European Council meeting at Thessaloniki. Again, in anticipating our work into the next calendar year, we need to bring forward, on time, any proposals we have on substance and timing to try to influence what happens then and in the period after that.
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I noted that Parliament would seek to give as much urgency as possible to the question of financial solidarity and urge the Commission to bring forward specific proposals to the House. I also pointed out that we would treat such proposals with appropriate urgency when the matter is presented to us.
Finally, on human rights issues, I placed considerable emphasis on the dialogue with Russia on the question of human rights in Chechnya.
My speech is available and the groups may wish, on institutional points in particular, to raise some of these issues in the course of our debate with the Council."@en1
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