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"Mr President, I too would like to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Theato, for her work on this proposal despite the fact that I disagree with it.
One of the most important factors when we look at the creation of new offices or new institutions under the European Treaties is that there are a number of elements that have to be remembered first and foremost. These are basic issues. Is there a public demand for this? No. Will it be more efficient? No. Will it deliver a better form of justice? No. Will it more effectively secure the financial interests of the European Community or the European institutions? No. The reason is that in each Member State we already have in place a number of public prosecutors with special competence in their own areas to deal with fraud and criminal prosecutions and to understand the rules and requirements of evidence in each of the Member States.
We must ensure that throughout all of those public prosecutors' offices there is the necessary understanding of what the European Union's financial interests are. There must be greater cooperation between OLAF, the Court of Auditors and those national prosecutors in the bringing of prosecutions in the national courts and there must also, in addition to the Eurojust system, be a greater opportunity for the sharing of interests, for the sharing of education and for the sharing of understanding between the judicial members in each Member State so that a commonality eventually arrives.
I am somewhat disappointed by one of the comments in the report stating that common rules of evidence must be established. In the British legal system, which is the common law system, the rules of evidence were established over 322 years – and yet we are going to bring in common rules of evidence willy nilly? It is important that we remember that the people in the European Union are entitled to have proper representation in relation to their concerns. They are entitled to have their taxes protected but the best way to protect the taxpayers and the taxpayers' interests is at the national level."@en1
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