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". – Mr President, first of all I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Corbett, for the excellent work he has done in preparing this report on the Commission's proposal to amend the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers.
I should like to record briefly the background and purposes of the reform under discussion today. With this proposal the Commission is keeping to the commitments it made in the White Paper on European Governance and in its action plan on better regulation, namely
to give the Council and the European Parliament equal rights in monitoring and overseeing the executive. The two branches of the legislature must be placed on an equal footing, as supervisors of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers in matters subject to codecision.
The European Parliament should, as co-legislator, be given the right to object not just to the scope of powers delegated to the Commission under codecision – the current right of scrutiny granted in Council Decision 1999/468/EC – but also to the substance of a measure implementing a codecision act.
It is the hope of the Commission that such reform will ultimately pave the way to a wider review based on Treaty changes. To this end, the Commission made concrete proposals to amend Article 202 of the Treaty in the framework of the European Convention, notably by introducing the concept of delegation of legislative powers in the Treaty.
I emphasise that a temporary reform of the system is all the more necessary as the uncertainty surrounding the ratification by 25 Member States of the new constitutional treaty is not inconsiderable. The Commission therefore welcomes the support of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs for the proposal and hopes the Chamber will confirm this favourable stance."@en1
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