Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-08-Speech-2-332"
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".
Mr President, I am replacing my colleague, Mr Hammerstein Mintz, who is ill.
I wish to begin by congratulating Mr Wieland for his good work as rapporteur for the annual report on the Committee of Petitions. This report is the first for this Parliament and because of the new Members it provides Parliament with extra information about the committee.
This committee is the most direct link between voters and Parliament. It is like an ongoing dialogue, in which citizens should feel that they are being taken seriously and can have confidence in the EU. In fact petitions are a strong tool for democracy.
Mr Wieland’s report reflects the serious need to develop the ability and capacity of the committee to deal with situations in which cooperation with the Commission does not work and/or the Commission does not take appropriate action. It must be stressed that, in developing the ability of the Committee on Petitions to deal with those situations, the committee will need the support of Parliament as a whole.
Against that background, Mr Hammerstein Mintz tabled a few amendments to the report by Mr Wieland, which he as rapporteur and the committee as a whole unanimously supported. That is very important. They point out, firstly, that under the Nice Treaty, Parliament has the right to bring action against the Commission, for example, on the grounds of lack of competence; infringement of essential procedural requirements; infringement of the EC Treaty and of any rule of law relating to its application; and misuse of powers, irrespective of whether Parliament’s prerogatives are concerned. Thus the committee is also putting forward for Parliament’s approval a statement that it is considered legitimate for Parliament to exercise its powers under Article 230 of the EC Treaty if this is necessary in order to put an end to a serious infringement of Community law that has been reviewed in the examination of a petition, and where a significant difference of interpretation persists – in spite of efforts to resolve it – between Parliament on the one hand and the Commission on the other, as regards the actions required by Community law for the protection of citizens’ rights in the case concerned."@en1
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