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dcterms:Date	"2012-09-13"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Rafał Trzaskowski2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Platforma Obywatelska (2009-07-14--2013-12-02)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2012-02-03--2013-12-02)3 member; AFCO (2012-01-19--2013-12-02)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-29--2013-12-02)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2013-12-02)3 substitute; IMCO (2012-01-19--2013-12-02)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2013-12-02)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, first of all, congratulations to our negotiating team and its leader, Mr Häfner, for reaching an important agreement. This is never easy, especially when two institutions are involved and one of them is being granted new powers, and all the more so in a field as sensitive as that of classified information. In this case, our negotiators succeeded in bringing about a really mature agreement, which provides us with sensible agreements for getting access to classified information held by the Council. What may seem to many a technical matter is, in fact, another step towards the practical realisation of the long-standing demand for more democratic scrutiny of what the Union does. This is in line with the Lisbon Treaty and the provisions on transparency which, for many years, have been the priority of this House in the various Treaty changes. Because Parliament takes its decisions responsibly, we need the fullest picture possible, and this agreement provides us with a tool for obtaining it. As Mr Häfner has said, it is a part of a larger process of fighting for the prerogatives of this House, be it with regard to committees of inquiry or access to information in the field which has just been negotiated or, for example, in the field of common foreign and security policy, an area that still lies ahead of us. Our negotiating team has done a very good job; the legal framework and the principles are there. Now it is imperative that Parliament, too, does its job and puts in place a system so that the agreement can be implemented and exploited in practice as soon as possible. We should also not lose sight of the fact that the agreement still leaves some room for interpretation. I can only hope that, on the part of the Council, the good spirit in which it was conceived will continue throughout the process of its implementation. We all know that sincere cooperation between the institutions is enshrined in the Treaties, but it is good to see it employed in practice, especially as there is still another missing piece of the puzzle of a more comprehensive democratic oversight of the Union: access to classified information on common foreign and security policy, which I have mentioned, has yet to be addressed. Basically, there is one message here: thanks to this interinstitutional agreement, we can carry out our duties in this House much better, in a more informed and effective way, and we can hold the Council to account in a transparent manner: and that has been Parliament’s priority in consecutive Treaty changes."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Rafał Trzaskowski,"1 "on behalf of the PPE Group."1
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