É pena os jornais não publicarem directamente as notas de imprensa dos partidos. Repare-se na pérola mais recente do gabinete de Paulo Rangel:“O deputado europeu Paulo Rangel deixou esta tarde o comissário indigitado Maros Sefcovic em dificuldades ao exigir um compromisso do candidato quanto à redução dos prazos de resposta da Comissão às iniciativas legislativas do Parlamento.
Paulo Rangel é o relator do relatório da comissão de Assuntos Constitucionais sobre a revisão do acordo-quadro Parlamento-Comissão e integra delegação parlamentar que irá negociar com Durão Barroso a revisão do Acordo. O acordo-quadro trata...".
Além da importância transcendente do tema, já estou a imaginar o pobre do eslovaco acossado, a mexer-se nervoso na cadeira, a suar em bica, a percorrer a sala com um olhar desesperado em busca de ajuda e a espremer as meninges enquanto tenta perceber... “quem será este gajo?!”.
2 comentários:
De facto, inúmeras dificuldades...que o levaram a responder com o tratado de lisboa, que define claramente as posições respectivas de cada instituição nesta matéria...ah, devem ter sido dificuldades para perceber a pronúncia do Rangel, que vá lá saber-se porquê resolveu interrogar o comissário indigitado em inglês...
Olha p'ra ele a transpirar!
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Paulo Rangel (PPE). – Mr Šefčovič, I will raise a very precise question on the interinstitutional agreement, concerning the relations between the Commission and the Parliament.
As you know, the new Article 225 of the Lisbon Treaty enshrines the right of Parliament to adopt, with a qualified majority, a legislative initiative. During the last term (2004-2009), Parliament adopted 15 legislative initiatives, and five of these initiatives have still had no formal response.
Are you ready to accept, in the framework of the institutional agreement, the fixing of a deadline of one year after the adoption of a legislative initiative, according to Article 225, for a legislative reaction by the Commission? Are you ready?
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Maroš Šefčovič, Commissioner-designate. Thank you very much, Mr Rangel. I am ready to do everything which is in the Treaty. You know very well that in Article 225 there is also a second sentence, which says that after such a legislative initiative is adopted by the Parliament, it is up to the Commission to decide if it adopts it, and will submit a proposal, or if it rejects it.
I think that we have to respect the Treaty. We have to respect that the legislative initiative is one of the Commission’s major instruments for being a good European institution. But what I can say to assure you is that I would pay – and I would force my colleagues to pay – the utmost attention to any legislative initiative resolution coming from the Parliament.
To be honest, my figures are a little different. According to the check I have made – because of course this is a very important issue and I was trying to verify this with my colleagues – my figures are that during the last term there were 19 proposals in the category you described and only two were not accepted by the Commission. So I think that we have quite a solid track record. With 17 initiatives from the Parliament, the Commission was working in a positive manner. I think that this shows the respect of the Commission for the European Parliament. I am sure that this respect will be even greater in the coming term because of the new special partnership we want to build together and because we have a new legislative framework to operate in.
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Paulo Rangel (PPE). – We can assume, then, that you do not recognise an indirect legislative competence for Parliament, and so I will ask you this: if you reject these requests for Parliament, would you personally, here and now, make a commitment to come up with a legislative proposal in your field of responsibility, if Parliament were to request this by qualified majority? Are you open to assuming this personal commitment in your field of responsibility?
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Maroš Šefčovič, Commissioner-designate. Again I have to tell you that I will respect the Treaty.
If such a legislative initiative comes from Parliament, of course I will study it carefully. I will study it from all angles because it would be to my utmost pleasure to please the European Parliament, as we did 17 out of 19 times in the previous legislature.
However, I cannot commit to something which goes beyond the Treaty. I am sure that we will have such close cooperation that these things will be discussed and that it will not come to the stage where you propose something and we – just by not doing anything – reject it. The goal, of course, is to have a good working relationship and to advance European affairs as much as possible.
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