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"Mr President, with regard to a Code of Good Administrative Behaviour for all three institutions, the Commission is completely in agreement. I would insist, however, that it is best for us to wait until we know what is decided at the Intergovernmental Conference. That will make discussions a great deal simpler. It will also make it much simpler for the three institutions to adopt such a code and, above all, to do so with Parliament’s full participation. At the moment, according to Article 308 of the Treaty, Parliament only has the right to give opinions and produce reports. It has no right of codecision, however. As I said a little while ago, I would insist on the need to postpone discussion of this issue for the moment.
Moving on to the next question, I would say to Mrs Thors – I think it was her that asked me – that we in the Commission are prepared to review the current Interinstitutional Agreement. It is more accurate to call it an exchange of letters than an Interinstitutional Agreement, since that is what has governed the petitions procedure since 1989. I would remind the honourable Member, however, that it is actually Parliament’s services which should take the initiative in revising this agreement. We are, therefore, waiting for them to come to us with a proposal, which we will then examine with the utmost interest, in the constructive spirit which I believe we have shown in recent times and which has been acknowledged by various honourable Members, such as Mrs Mathieu and Mr Gemelli, Chairman of the Committee on Petitions, in their speeches. I agree entirely with what both of you said, because I believe that tools such as this are key to safeguarding active and effective democracy in Europe. The democratic system relies on these tools to enable its citizens to enjoy their rights fully, to complain, in some cases, when they are wronged, and to do so not necessarily by following every twist and turn of the legal route, but by using simpler systems, which may sometimes be more effective.
I thank all the honourable Members for their work."@en1
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