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"Mr President, Commissioner, I will read the report that you have just outlined very carefully, but allow me to make some preliminary comments on Romania.
Firstly, you acknowledge the significant progress made on reforming the judicial system and fighting corruption, although you say that the efforts need to be maintained. I think that this is an area of serious concern, as has already been said. It was a real priority area, in which we now all acknowledge that the progress made in Romania has been very significant and we should celebrate that.
Mr Rehn, you told us that there are still four areas of serious concern regarding the
for example on some agricultural and veterinary matters. In short, in any case they are areas on which I know that the Romanian authorities are working very hard, as I had the opportunity to see a fortnight ago, when I visited Bucharest with a delegation from my Group.
Commissioner, as I said at the plenary on 26 April, I was personally in favour of making the timescale for accession clear as soon as possible, because this would remove the uncertainty for the governments concerned as quickly as possible. However, I can see that the Commission, although it recognises that Romania is working adequately towards the objective of 2007, prefers to wait, for the sake of rigour and prudence, until autumn to confirm whether accession will actually take place in January 2007, as I hope it will.
I am convinced that the Romanian authorities will maintain their firm commitment to the common objective of 2007. In the October 2005 report the Commission mentioned a high number of areas, fourteen as you told us, affecting seven chapters of the
that were causes for serious concern.
Now I understand that these areas have been reduced to four, as you told us, and they affect very few chapters. The progress is therefore evident. And with these precedents, with the serious Europeanism of the Romanian authorities, I think that they will pay the utmost attention to your recommendations. I am sure that in the autumn you will be able to confirm the date of 1 January 2007 for accession, with no further conditions. I am optimistic.
Finally, I would also like to encourage those Parliaments who have not done so to speed up the process as soon as possible for the ratification of the accession treaty."@en1
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