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In short, I can tell you that the President and the services considered that the question was addressed to Mr Prodi, and he was not expected to attend the plenary sitting. The President of the Commission does not usually attend this Question Time. There are a number of Commissioners, including Mr Kinnock and Mr Byrne, who we know in advance will reply to questions.
This is communicated to the Members of the European Parliament and they therefore ask specific questions. Furthermore, the President of Parliament has decided, as well as considering the chronological order, to select the five questions which, in her judgment, are priorities and urgent, which are the five which make up the first part and which we are going to deal with now.
That is the explanation I can give you, with complete transparency. In any event, I take note of your comments, which will appear in the Minutes, and I regret that a newspaper from any country can make statements on written or oral replies which are yet to be given. Mr Berenguer has the floor for a point of order. I would ask him to be as concise as possible. Mr President, since I have been mentioned by the presidency, I would like to say that I have in fact received a reply, which I do not agree with. I do not agree with the presidency's interpretation of the questions made by Members of this House.
I do not agree with it because it seems that that interpretation can be seen as a way of reducing the legitimate initiatives of Members to monitor the Commission. My question specifically asked whether the Commission - not the President, but the Commission - felt threatened by the words of a Spanish MEP, a member of the People's Party, in which he said that, if the Socialists criticised Mrs de Palacio for her involvement in the flax scandal which took place in Spain when she was Minister for Agriculture, they would threaten to bring down the Commission. If this is not considered by the presidency to be a priority, if this is not a question which, because it is not considered a priority, could not be answered by, for example, Vice-President Kinnock, then I am truly amazed. In any event, and while I express my disagreement, this is not what I wanted to say.
Like my colleague, Mr Izquierdo, who was requesting support from the presidency, I wanted to say that it was unacceptable for replies addressed to Members of this House to be published in a pro-government newspaper in Spain, before the Members are made aware of that reply. And, while strongly protesting at this anomaly, I would ask you to consider my question withdrawn.
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Puedo resumirle que la Sra. Presidenta y los servicios opinaban que la pregunta iba dirigida al Sr. Prodi, y no estaba previsto que el Sr. Prodi acudiese al Pleno.
El Sr. Presidente de la Comisión no suele venir a este turno de preguntas.
Hay una serie de Comisarios, entre ellos los Sres. Kinnock y Byrne, de los que se sabe con antelación que van a contestar preguntas. Ello se comunica a los diputados y, por eso, se hacen preguntas específicas.
Por otra parte, la Presidenta del Parlamento ha decidido, además de considerar el orden cronológico, escoger las cinco preguntas que, a su juicio, resultan prioritarias y urgentes, que son las cinco que comprende la primera parte y que vamos a tratar ahora.
Esa es la explicación que les puedo dar, con total transparencia. De todas formas, tomo nota de sus palabras, que además constarán en acta, y lamento que un periódico de cualquier país pueda hacer afirmaciones sobre respuestas por escrito u orales que no se han producido todavía. Tiene la palabra para una cuestión de orden el Sr. Berenguer.
Le pido la mayor capacidad de síntesis.
Señor Presidente, puesto que he sido mencionado por la Presidencia, quiero manifestar que, efectivamente, yo he recibido una respuesta, cuyo contenido no comparto, con la interpretación que la Presidencia hace de las preguntas realizadas por los diputados. Y no la comparto porque me parece que de esta interpretación se deduce una forma de cercenar las iniciativas legítimas de los diputados para controlar a la Comisión. Mi pregunta, en concreto, se refería a si la Comisión -no el Presidente, sino la Comisión- se siente amenazada por unas palabras pronunciadas por un diputado español, miembro del Partido Popular, en las que manifestaba que, si los socialistas criticaban a la Sra. de Palacio por su intervención en el escándalo del lino habido en España cuando era Ministra de Agricultura, amenazaban con hacer caer a la Comisión.
Si esto no es considerado prioritario por la Presidencia, si ésta no es una pregunta que, de no ser considerada prioritaria, no pudiera contestar, por ejemplo, el Vicepresidente Kinnock, pues que venga el cielo y lo vea. De todas formas, y manifestando mi disconformidad, no es eso lo que quería plantear. Quería plantear, al igual que mi compañero Sr. Izquierdo, solicitando amparo a la Presidencia, la irregularidad que supone que las respuestas dirigidas a los diputados salgan publicadas en un periódico gubernamental en España, antes de que los diputados tengan conocimiento de esa respuesta.
Y con mi más rotunda protesta por esa anomalía, quiero decir, señor Presidente, que consideren mi pregunta retirada.