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Europarliament Legal Committee 18/5/1 against Direct Trade
by Get Real! » Tue Oct 19, 2010 11:43 am
MrH wrote:Get Real Wrote:
"But I'm not Greek... "
Are you not an Australian Greek now living in Southern Cyprus?
No, I'm just a Cypriot (the real thing) who had spent some time working in Australia...
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by shahmaran » Tue Oct 19, 2010 11:54 am
Get Real! wrote:shahmaran wrote:lola-tulip wrote:The most vocal supporter was Štefan Füle, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy. One wonders how much better off the EU would be without his time-wasting opposition to those countries who wish to see an end to the protracted Turkey accession process.
Yeah go ahead, put an end to Turkeys accession.
And then what are you going to do? Wage war?
Can’t you see what’s happening? Once Turkey’s EU accession is over, and in conjunction with her freefall with the US and Israel… she will have well and truly joined the “axis of evil” and start getting royalty treatment from the West!
One could then safely conclude that her illegal stay on Cyprus would pretty much be over…
PS: And the best guarantee that this will come to pass is none other than Erdogan himself!
Tha Axis of evil being China? The Saudis?
I can totally see the US attacking them both!
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by grokked » Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:46 pm
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/direc ... y/20101019
Direct trade option slips away
By George Psyllides Published on October 19, 2010
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s (EP) Legal Affairs Committee last night upheld by an 18-to-five majority vote a ruling saying the European Commission cannot bypass the Republic of Cyprus to implement direct trade with the Turkish-occupied north.
The EP’s legal service has ruled that the legal basis chosen by the Commission to push through the direct trade regulation was unsuitable and its potential adoption could undermine Cyprus’ sovereign rights.
It was a heated atmosphere inside a packed room in Strasbourg last night, with MEPs engaging in passionate debate and analysis of the Cyprus problem.
A motion was made to postpone discussion of the issue, but that was defeated by majority vote.
AKEL MEP Takis Hadjigeorgiou, the only Cypriot who spoke during the session, argued that the government was against anyone’s isolation.
“I told them I would speak as a Cypriot. We are against the isolation of anyone, be it a person or a community,” Hadjigeorgiou told the Cyprus Mail afterwards.
He added: “We are in favour of Turkish Cypriots having contacts with the outside world.”
Hadjigeorgiou stressed that legally, the direct trade regulation could not stand in any court.
The Commission is trying to pass the regulation under an article in the Lisbon Treaty that governs EU trade with third countries thus depriving Cyprus of the right to veto.
External trade issues come under the co-decision procedure as stipulated in the Lisbon Treaty and the European Council shall act by a qualified majority.
Cyprus has argued that the direct trade regulation should not be examined as a matter of international trade with third countries since the north is considered part of the Republic of Cyprus – according to the accession treaty -- despite the suspension of the acquis.
In its ruling, the EP’s legal service suggests that Protocol 10 of the island’s Accession Treaty could be the proper legal basis.
The ruling follows a similar view taken by the Council’s legal service.
Hadjigeorgiou said proof that the government was not in favor of isolation was the decision for co-management of the Famagusta port, in conjunction with the return of Varosha, which the Turkish Cypriots have rejected.
“Why jointly manage? To prove we can, together, which is the aim of the talks. Possible approval of the regulation would lead to a collapse in the talks in the next 10 seconds,” the AKEL MEP said.
“Why is it more direct to trade from Famagusta and less from Limassol?” Hadjigeorgiou said. “I asked if they knew the distance from Morphou to Famagusta and Morphou to Limassol”
The Legal Affairs Committee decision will now be discussed by the Presidents’ Conference – EP President and leaders of the political groups – but it would be unlikely for them to go against it.
The Commission would then have to decide whether to send it to the Council, where unanimity is needed -- or withdraw it.
Direct trade option slips away
By George Psyllides Published on October 19, 2010
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s (EP) Legal Affairs Committee last night upheld by an 18-to-five majority vote a ruling saying the European Commission cannot bypass the Republic of Cyprus to implement direct trade with the Turkish-occupied north.
The EP’s legal service has ruled that the legal basis chosen by the Commission to push through the direct trade regulation was unsuitable and its potential adoption could undermine Cyprus’ sovereign rights.
It was a heated atmosphere inside a packed room in Strasbourg last night, with MEPs engaging in passionate debate and analysis of the Cyprus problem.
A motion was made to postpone discussion of the issue, but that was defeated by majority vote.
AKEL MEP Takis Hadjigeorgiou, the only Cypriot who spoke during the session, argued that the government was against anyone’s isolation.
“I told them I would speak as a Cypriot. We are against the isolation of anyone, be it a person or a community,” Hadjigeorgiou told the Cyprus Mail afterwards.
He added: “We are in favour of Turkish Cypriots having contacts with the outside world.”
Hadjigeorgiou stressed that legally, the direct trade regulation could not stand in any court.
The Commission is trying to pass the regulation under an article in the Lisbon Treaty that governs EU trade with third countries thus depriving Cyprus of the right to veto.
External trade issues come under the co-decision procedure as stipulated in the Lisbon Treaty and the European Council shall act by a qualified majority.
Cyprus has argued that the direct trade regulation should not be examined as a matter of international trade with third countries since the north is considered part of the Republic of Cyprus – according to the accession treaty -- despite the suspension of the acquis.
In its ruling, the EP’s legal service suggests that Protocol 10 of the island’s Accession Treaty could be the proper legal basis.
The ruling follows a similar view taken by the Council’s legal service.
Hadjigeorgiou said proof that the government was not in favor of isolation was the decision for co-management of the Famagusta port, in conjunction with the return of Varosha, which the Turkish Cypriots have rejected.
“Why jointly manage? To prove we can, together, which is the aim of the talks. Possible approval of the regulation would lead to a collapse in the talks in the next 10 seconds,” the AKEL MEP said.
“Why is it more direct to trade from Famagusta and less from Limassol?” Hadjigeorgiou said. “I asked if they knew the distance from Morphou to Famagusta and Morphou to Limassol”
The Legal Affairs Committee decision will now be discussed by the Presidents’ Conference – EP President and leaders of the political groups – but it would be unlikely for them to go against it.
The Commission would then have to decide whether to send it to the Council, where unanimity is needed -- or withdraw it.
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by grokked » Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:49 pm
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/20 ... 69194.aspx
Northern Cyprus trade 'not under Parliament's jurisdiction'
By Toby Vogel
19.10.2010 / 11:26 CET
Committee says MEPs do not have co-decision powers over Commission trade proposal.
The European Parliament's legal affairs committee has decided that MEPs do not have co-decision powers over a proposal by the European Commission to allow direct trade between the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus and EU member states.
The decision, taken last night (18 October), with 18 in favour, five against and one abstention, means that the Commission's direct trade regulation is now solely in the hands of the member states.
No vote had been scheduled for yesterday's session, but Klaus-Heiner Lehne, the centre-right German MEP who chairs the legal affairs committee, said MEPs should take a decision as a vote had been postponed three times.
Kurt Lechner, a centre-right German MEP who had written a report on the matter, said that using the Parliament's powers over international trade would undermine the sovereignty of Cyprus.
Bernhard Rapkay, a centre-left German MEP who chairs the Parliament's group for relations with the Turkish Cypriots, said that the vote was “ridiculous”. “I want law to be respected and [the Treaty of] Lisbon gives these issues co-decision and we are agreeing not to use this procedure,” he said.
He appealed to the committee to give members more time to study the opinion by the Parliament's legal service on which Lechner's report was based. Rapkay said that the opinion had been given to members only on Friday.
The advice by the Parliament's legal service in essence accepted previous legal advice from the Council of Ministers that the regulation did not touch on a matter of international trade and that the Parliament therefore had no say over it.
Diana Wallis, a British Liberal MEP, said: “If we always followed our legal service, we would not be doing our job as politicians.”
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Dianna Wallis huh -- what a surpruse <not!>
One of the votes against (of the 5) was reportedly a politician in the socialist group from Holland - of Turkish background.
Northern Cyprus trade 'not under Parliament's jurisdiction'
By Toby Vogel
19.10.2010 / 11:26 CET
Committee says MEPs do not have co-decision powers over Commission trade proposal.
The European Parliament's legal affairs committee has decided that MEPs do not have co-decision powers over a proposal by the European Commission to allow direct trade between the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus and EU member states.
The decision, taken last night (18 October), with 18 in favour, five against and one abstention, means that the Commission's direct trade regulation is now solely in the hands of the member states.
No vote had been scheduled for yesterday's session, but Klaus-Heiner Lehne, the centre-right German MEP who chairs the legal affairs committee, said MEPs should take a decision as a vote had been postponed three times.
Kurt Lechner, a centre-right German MEP who had written a report on the matter, said that using the Parliament's powers over international trade would undermine the sovereignty of Cyprus.
Bernhard Rapkay, a centre-left German MEP who chairs the Parliament's group for relations with the Turkish Cypriots, said that the vote was “ridiculous”. “I want law to be respected and [the Treaty of] Lisbon gives these issues co-decision and we are agreeing not to use this procedure,” he said.
He appealed to the committee to give members more time to study the opinion by the Parliament's legal service on which Lechner's report was based. Rapkay said that the opinion had been given to members only on Friday.
The advice by the Parliament's legal service in essence accepted previous legal advice from the Council of Ministers that the regulation did not touch on a matter of international trade and that the Parliament therefore had no say over it.
Diana Wallis, a British Liberal MEP, said: “If we always followed our legal service, we would not be doing our job as politicians.”
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Dianna Wallis huh -- what a surpruse <not!>
One of the votes against (of the 5) was reportedly a politician in the socialist group from Holland - of Turkish background.
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by grokked » Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:12 pm
http://www.dianawallismep.org.uk/pages/ ... fairs.html
Committee on Legal Affairs
Diana Wallis is the coordinator for the ALDE group on the Committee on Legal Affairs (otherwise known as "JURI"), which is her main parliamentary committee. This means that she coordinates the position of Liberals and Democrats on this committee, and is the spokesperson for that Committee.
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Vice Presidency of the European Parliament
On 18 January 2007, Diana was elected Vice President of the European Parliament. She is the first Liberal Democrat and the first British female of any political persuasion to be elected to such a post in twenty years.
Diana's tasks include chairing debate and votes in the Plenary, and participation in the Bureau of Parliament. She also has specific tasks which are:
Transparency and Access to Documents .
Northern Dimension (including: Nordic Council, Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference and Parliamentary Conference of the Arctic Region).
European Law Academy (Trier) .
Question Time (shared with Mr Dos Santos MEP)
What is the European Parliament's "Bureau"?
The Bureau is made up of the President of the European Parliament, the Vice-Presidents and the Quaestors, with observer status, elected by the assembly for a renewable period of two and a half years. The Bureau is the body that lays down rules for Parliament. It draws up Parliament's preliminary draft budget and decides all administrative, staff and organisational matters. The Bureau generally meets twice a month.
Click here to see who else sits on the Bureau.
Relevant extracts from the Rules of Procedure.
Reforming the European Parliament
Between October 2007 and December 2008, Diana Wallis represented her political group in the high-level task force set up to make the Parliament fit for purpose in 2009 and beyond. The task force first examined the running of plenary, then went on to look at inter-institutional relations and better law-making, and finally proposed a fundamental reform of Parliament's committees and external activities. Ms. Wallis played an active role throughout the process, from implementing key changes which she herself had long argued for in the Legal Affairs Committee and as rapporteur of the Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of Equitable Life in relation to better law-making, to reforming Question Time to make it more interactive, to examining the future role played by national Parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon.
Diana also drafted a code of conduct which will make legislative negotiations more transparent in the Parliament, and the rapporteur more accountable to his or her respective committee, in particular in the run up to an agreement at first reading which is often reached hastily and under intense pressure.
"The Reforms on the table were the result of many hours of informed cross-party discussions and form a coherent whole - now the ball is in the court of the political groups to give their green light to the proposals. It is a great shame for the Parliament that these reforms are now being picked apart and some postponed until the next mandate, or even indefinitely."
Committee on Legal Affairs
Diana Wallis is the coordinator for the ALDE group on the Committee on Legal Affairs (otherwise known as "JURI"), which is her main parliamentary committee. This means that she coordinates the position of Liberals and Democrats on this committee, and is the spokesperson for that Committee.
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http://www.dianawallismep.org.uk/pages/ ... ident.html
Vice Presidency of the European Parliament
On 18 January 2007, Diana was elected Vice President of the European Parliament. She is the first Liberal Democrat and the first British female of any political persuasion to be elected to such a post in twenty years.
Diana's tasks include chairing debate and votes in the Plenary, and participation in the Bureau of Parliament. She also has specific tasks which are:
Transparency and Access to Documents .
Northern Dimension (including: Nordic Council, Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference and Parliamentary Conference of the Arctic Region).
European Law Academy (Trier) .
Question Time (shared with Mr Dos Santos MEP)
What is the European Parliament's "Bureau"?
The Bureau is made up of the President of the European Parliament, the Vice-Presidents and the Quaestors, with observer status, elected by the assembly for a renewable period of two and a half years. The Bureau is the body that lays down rules for Parliament. It draws up Parliament's preliminary draft budget and decides all administrative, staff and organisational matters. The Bureau generally meets twice a month.
Click here to see who else sits on the Bureau.
Relevant extracts from the Rules of Procedure.
Reforming the European Parliament
Between October 2007 and December 2008, Diana Wallis represented her political group in the high-level task force set up to make the Parliament fit for purpose in 2009 and beyond. The task force first examined the running of plenary, then went on to look at inter-institutional relations and better law-making, and finally proposed a fundamental reform of Parliament's committees and external activities. Ms. Wallis played an active role throughout the process, from implementing key changes which she herself had long argued for in the Legal Affairs Committee and as rapporteur of the Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of Equitable Life in relation to better law-making, to reforming Question Time to make it more interactive, to examining the future role played by national Parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon.
Diana also drafted a code of conduct which will make legislative negotiations more transparent in the Parliament, and the rapporteur more accountable to his or her respective committee, in particular in the run up to an agreement at first reading which is often reached hastily and under intense pressure.
"The Reforms on the table were the result of many hours of informed cross-party discussions and form a coherent whole - now the ball is in the court of the political groups to give their green light to the proposals. It is a great shame for the Parliament that these reforms are now being picked apart and some postponed until the next mandate, or even indefinitely."
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by Oracle » Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:13 pm
Neelie Kroes (Holland; European Commissioner for Competition). Her nomination was heavily criticised because of her ties to big business (transport of goods) and alleged involvement in shady arms deals.
(para; wiki)
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