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"Mr President, let me begin by expressing my gratification that the European Parliament has supported this proposal. My special thanks go to the rapporteur, Mr Demetriou.
The Commission is favourable in principle to some of the amendments on the table and will support them in its negotiations with the Council. This applies to the concept of national units, which is rejected by a majority of the delegation but for which we could accept a change of wording along the lines proposed by the rapporteur. We could accept the term ‘point of contact’, which is suggested in the Presidency’s compromise and which seems to be based on the same logic.
The same applies to the amendment allowing the Council, acting on a representation by the Governing Board, to terminate the Director’s term of office for misconduct. We also endorse the budgetary amendments.
On the other hand, with regard to the possibility of Parliament being represented on the Governing Board by an observer, we can only refer you to the resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 13 January 2004 concerning the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies and to the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for those agencies, which the Commission adopted, as you know, on 25 February 2005. The resolution specifies that parliamentary representation on the governing bodies should be avoided. In fact, Parliament itself, as part of the budgetary authority, realised that representation is ethically unsound, given that Parliament is responsible for granting discharge in respect of the agency’s budget."@en1
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