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"I voted in favour of Mr Meyer’s report. The aim of the Committee on Petitions’ annual activity reports is to review the work carried out based on the available statistics.
These reports are extremely important for improving our Committee’s effectiveness. As MEPs, we all have a duty to defend the rights of Europe’s citizens. However, this applies even more strongly to members of the Committee on Petitions. This is why we need to focus our attention on several important points in the report. The slight drop in the number of petitions submitted, compared with 2009, may be an indication to us that the general public has become better informed about what our Committee does.
However, we must not stop making efforts in this area because we also notice a high number of inadmissible petitions where petitioners are still getting confused between national and European areas of competence. The large number of inadmissible petitions is also indicative of the need for the competent bodies and institutions to take some responsibility. Finally, it is important also to focus attention on the impact of the Treaty of Lisbon’s entry into force on the Committee on Petitions: the legally binding nature of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the European citizens’ initiative, the European External Action Service and so on."@en1
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