Even if we have new Rules of Procedure in Parliament, and it may well be that, with such an ambitious chairman in the Committee on Agriculture, problems of legislative competence will arise more and more frequently between the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on the Environment, one thing is always crystal clear for me in this sort of conflict: cohesion in this Parliament is crucial and the legal basis of a question is crucial as far as I am concerned.
Selvom vi i Europa-Parlamentet har en ny forretningsorden - og det godt kan være, at der med den meget ambitiøse formand for Landbrugsudvalget stadig oftere kan dukke problemer op mellem Landbrugsudvalget og Miljøudvalget i spørgsmålet om lovgivningskompetence - er der for mig i sådanne konflikter én ting, der altid vil være klar, nemlig at sammenholdet i Europa-Parlamentet er afgørende, og en sags retsgrundlag er afgørende for mig.