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Mr President, the Commission believes it has fulfilled its duties under the Treaty. When doubts were raised, the Commission started an investigation and issued a letter of formal notice and a supplementary letter of formal notice. The Commission has answered questions put to it by the Parliament to the best of its ability. My predecessor met with representatives of the Committee on Petitions and answered questions in this Chamber, as well as many written questions. I have met with Mr Libicki to discuss this matter, and am here again this evening to answer Parliament’s questions. This is what accountability on the part of the Commission amounts to. The Commission has acted by deciding to open an infringement procedure and acted again by deciding to close the case when it received a satisfactory answer from the UK authorities.
The Commission always endeavours to answer Parliament’s questions to the best of its abilities. In this case, however, the Commission is being asked to pronounce on whether a Member State was in conformity with Community law during a certain period in the past, and under a different legislative regime to that which is now in place. The Commission cannot answer that question because the pre-litigation and litigation proceedings that would have established the answer were not completed."@en1
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