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Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, please allow me firstly to say that the Commission has received the initiatives of the rapporteur and of the Italian Presidency in relation to the Members’ Statute with great satisfaction.
I sincerely hope that, after such a drawn-out debate over so many years, we will be faced with the real possibility of reaching an agreement on this issue which has been dragging on for such a long time. I would therefore like once again to acknowledge the effort and work over all this time by Mr Rothley, who has worked in the most dedicated and tenacious fashion in favour of this House, and everybody should be grateful to him.
At the moment, the Commission does not wish to enter into the detailed content of this initiative, since we do not yet have the official proposal. However, perhaps I could remind the honourable Members of the position we adopted following the approval of the Statute last June. At that time the Commission issued an opinion which contained two general observations: firstly, in relation to the provisions of the Statute which are governed by primary law; secondly, with regard to the financial implications of the Statute.
In the first case we said that the provisions of the Statute cannot be modified by means of a fundamental act, on the basis of Article 190 of the Treaty, and in the second case, we indicated that the sums in question would represent a significant burden for category 5 of the financial perspectives.
Logically, all of this referred to a text which was different to the current one. We will now have to see exactly the form the text takes in order to be able to give a detailed opinion. In any event, Mr President, the Commission will always be constructive and of course we fervently hope that an agreement can be reached between the institutions."@en1
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