Translation of "Kompetenzstreit" in English

There is no point in waging a conflict of competence at someone else's expense.

The legislative own-initiative report which we commissioned did not come about because the chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, who we all know is a member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, began a completely unnecessary dispute over authority. The result of this was that we spent months, if not years, in reaching an agreement and were then finally able to adopt the legislative own-initiative reports on this issue in September of last year, in the form of the Rasmussen and Lehne reports.

Commissioner, when I referred to a policy in relation to our neighbours in the High North, I did not wish to imply that you were engaging in a dispute over authority with Baroness Ashton.

Should a standing committee declare itself not competent to consider a question, or should a conflict arise over the competence of two or more standing committees, the question of competence shall be referred to the Conference of Presidents within four working weeks of the announcement in Parliament of referral to committee.

This can probably be attributed to a turf war between the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development and the Directorate-General for the Environment - guess who won?

The conflict in competence between the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market was the starting point of political sentiment in particular.

What we deplore is, instead, that there is still no overall legislation on protection of the environment through criminal law and, in fact, the conflict between the Council and the Commission, with the well-known subsequent appeal to the Court of Justice has crushed hopes, at least for us environmentalists.

First of all, like most legislative assemblies, we had to prevent a conflict of responsibilities between our different committees as, depending on the approach, four of them could be declared to be responsible for the whole of the proposal.

This will prevent scope for jurisdictional conflict or legal uncertainty which could have deeply damaging consequences for the legal finality of business done on the market;

Therefore the EU needs to seize the opportunity and not get lost in a battle of competences with Member States.

If a standing committee declares itself not competent to consider a question, or a conflict arises over the competence of two or more standing committees, the question of competence shall be referred to the Conference of Presidents within 4 working weeks of the announcement in Parliament of referral to committee.

Whenever there is a chance of a solution, even if it takes the form simply of an intergovernmental agreement, we don't want to start a quarrel about whose area of responsibility it is.

At the moment, how ever, a major initiative of this kind is being thwarted by differences of opinion and squabbling over responsibilities within the Commission.

The real reason was turf war between the Amt Rosenberg and the SS Ahnenerbe, since Reinerth worked for Amt Rosenberg.

I feel therefore that there is no question of any obstacle from the legal point of view and that the question of a conflict over the terms of reference of the two committees does not even arise.

In the area of export support the Prime Minister welcomed the fact that a range of initiatives that improve the position of our exporters has been implemented in recent months. "Unlike in the past, we are not closing down embassies, but rather establishing some new ones. We have managed to increase the number of economic diplomats and managed to close an agreement between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Industry and Trade in order not to run jurisdictional disputes, but rather to devote maximum efforts to gain new markets.