— These claims are false,” said the EU Commissioner for Trade Valdis Dombrovskis in an interview with RMF FM, commenting on Czesław Siekierski's words on "secret negotiations between the EU and Mercosur". — The Commission has full respected all applicable provisions, including ensuring an equal level of transparency towards the Council and Parliament,” said Olof Gille.
Valdis Dombrovskis’s spokesperson stated in a communication from the station that ‘the CommissionThe European Parliament shall regularly inform the European Parliament of the state of the trade negotiations" through meetings at the Trade Committees and meetings of "special monitoring groups".
The Commissioner for Trade responds to the allegations. ‘Normal practice’
According to Olof Gille, all documents, but Mercosur's counterproposal, are available in electronic form online. “This is simply a average practice in the negotiation process, due to the fact that maintaining common trust between negotiating partners is essential to accomplish a affirmative outcome,” he explained.
— The Mercosur monitoring group was 1 of those that met more frequently in the erstwhile word of office, so we frequently informed Parliament during the negotiations, said the spokesman, as quoted by RMF FM.
Czesław Siekierski criticised the Mercosur negotiations. “Do not do that”
Before that, Czesław Siekierski powerfully criticised the negotiations conducted by the European Commission with Mercosur. — They were conducted mostly in a secret, confidential form that farmers, agricultural organisations, were not informed of how they were going, associate States were not full informed,” emphasised the Polish Minister of Agriculture.
“ specified things must not be done due to the fact that it is an action against the Community if we are going to far-reaching secrecy of the negotiation process,” he added.
Similar allegations against the Commission about the deficiency of transparency were made by Italian Euro MPs from European Conservatives and Reformists Carlo Fidanza. “The EC has exceeded its competence,” he said.
