Seanad debates
Wednesday, 20 November 2002
European Communities (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage.
Senator Ormonde is quite right in saying that this is a technical Bill. The aim, however, is very simple. The Senator did make an interesting point when she referred to the difficulty in coming to grips with the complexity of the different competences within the Community. She spoke, for example, of the competence of the European Court of Justice and how there is a need for work to be done on this. This arises at the Convention on the Future of Europe. There is a rather peculiar working group called Complementary Competencies in which it is being discussed. Another section of the convention, in which legal personality is being discussed, is dealing with the creation of a single, homogeneous, unified European Union with fewer of the complications to which the Senator made reference.
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