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"I should like to record today a moment that, I believe, is significant in the lifetime of this Parliament. It relates to the long negotiations we have had since the Seville European Council, between Parliament, the Commission and the Council on the issue of better lawmaking. On behalf of Parliament, I should like to thank four colleagues from our House who led this work and who made substantial contributions: Mr Gargani, Mr Swoboda, Mrs Frassoni and Mr Clegg.
Thanks to the leadership of Mrs de Palacio, Vice-President of the Commission, as well as the Danish, Greek and Italian presidencies, we are now in a position to sign a draft interinstitutional agreement today.
The challenge of this agreement was to improve the quality of lawmaking in the Union through a greater focus on relevance, transparency, coordination and effective transposition by Member States. What we sign today, by way of an
is an agreement on greater transparency, which Parliament introduced. It means in particular that the Council, in its political dialogue with Parliament and its committees, will engage at all stages of the legislative process in a transparent dialogue with Parliament.
Secondly, the three institutions will seek collectively to programme our legislative workload.
Thirdly, the recourse to instruments other than EU legislation, where appropriate – in other words, so-called 'light-touch regulation' – must be subject to parliamentary control and must be under full conditions of transparency.
This agreement insists that before any proposal is launched, and in a public way, there should be pre-consultation. This agreement insists that there must be impact assessment of legislative proposals, including the amendments of this House, in terms of effects on employment, environment and competitiveness. The agreement insists on the effective monitoring of the transposition of EU law by Member States and effective enforcement.
I believe our delegation succeeded in bringing Parliamentary scrutiny and transparency into this process in a real way. The agreement is a significant step forward. On behalf of Parliament I want to say that we, as an institution, will apply this agreement fully and firmly. It is an important step forward which anticipates perhaps some of the areas to be covered in a future constitution.
I should like now to invite the President-in-Office of the Council, Mr Frattini, and the President of the Commission, Mr Prodi, to step forward with me for a signing ceremony. I also invite our Parliamentary colleagues – Mr Gargani, Mr Swoboda, Mrs Frassoni and Mr Clegg – to join us, along with the Vice-President of the Commission, Mrs de Palacio and – should he like to do so – Mr Berlusconi, for a family photograph."@en1
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"(Following this address, the President of the European Parliament, together with the President-in-Office of the Council and the President of the Commission, jointly signed the interinstitutional agreement on better lawmaking.)"1
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