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"Mr President, I shall say ‘Well done’ to Mr Bourlanges! Well done, for I believe that, through your work, you have highlighted what will become one of the important subjects of the Convention. Well done too for succeeding in incorporating the question of terminology in your report. I believe that when Europeans try to explain to Europeans what the European Parliament does, it is best to use simple words. You urge us to do this. I imagine that the Convention will support this plan and this will be a step forward.
You tell us you are aiming to simplify. Where Europe is concerned, I am wary of simplification, because I have learnt that complexity is not necessarily synonymous with complication and that we sometimes make things more complex when we seek to simplify them.
There is a point on which your report is absolutely essential in relation to the powers of the European Union, however; that is the question of the consequences of codecision on comitology. You call for Article 202 to be reformed. Both dimensions of Article 202 are absolutely essential: defining mandates and scrutinising their execution. With regard to powers, it is important for the powers of the Council and those of the European Parliament to be parallel. If the Council gives up some of its powers, we could give some up as well, and vice versa. That said, we must also take account of what is really happening, and I fear that the work that we have done in relation to your report does not bring us totally into line with what is really happening in terms of the changes to European legislation. You quite rightly referred to the mechanisms which are being established in connection to the Lamfalussy procedure, which we doubt the Council and the Commission would wish to extend to other areas, hence the importance of obtaining a genuine call-back procedure for Parliament. In addition, you also mentioned the question of coordination policies.
I would like to touch upon one last aspect, which is self-regulation by market operators, and draw the attention of Members to a major risk that we are facing, namely of focusing our work and our deliberations on the legislative procedure, whereas in reality, legislation in Europe will, in the future, be drawn up using self-regulation, coordination and comitology."@en1
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