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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021021.6.1-075"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-21-Speech-1-0762
lpv:speaker	lp:Hanja Maij-weggen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2003-09-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-08-29--2003-09-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2003-09-30)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2003-09-30)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2003-09-30)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2003-09-30)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2003-09-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should first of all like to thank Mr Duff for his excellent report and also Commissioner Vitorino for his expert comments. Anyone who had the honour of being actively involved in the Convention that drafted the Charter will realise that the broad consensus was not self-evident at the time. It is the result of very thorough, exhaustive and intense efforts. For that reason, we must prevent the text of the Charter from being re-submitted for discussion. Sterling work was done at the time. Tabling sections of the Charter for discussion will only weaken this excellent piece of work. My advice therefore would be to leave the Charter as it is, except for technical changes. This is the first point I wanted to make. My second point concerns the combination of the Charter with the ECHR, which has spawned more difficulties than necessary. This is evident from a number of articles written by judges and experts from the two courts of justice in Luxembourg and Strasbourg and is also clear from the work of Mr Vitorino's Convention working party. It turns out to be highly feasible to synchronise the work of both courts with regard to the ECHR and with regard to the Charter. This is also the view taken by our PPE-DE Group here and by the PPE-DE Group in the Council of Europe. We are therefore of the opinion that the path has been cleared for the Charter's inclusion in the new constitutional Treaty. It is our desire to do this and we will therefore commit ourselves to this in the Convention. This brings me to my third and final point, namely the Charter's importance for EU citizens. It is crucial for the rights of our citizens to be firmly anchored in the new constitutional Treaty that is being drafted. We know all too well that citizens' rights , minorities' rights, and social rights are still very fragile, particularly in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It is all the more important that these rights are enshrined in the new treaties and, above all, in the constitutional section of the Treaty. These rights should, in my view, be enforceable. In that way, citizens in Western and Central Europe can count on the same constitutional rights – rights enshrined in a European constitution, guaranteed by the Union and, if necessary, enforceable by European courts. This seems to me to be the thrust of the Duff Report, which is why we will be endorsing it."@en1

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