Translation chaos brings Parliament Committee to a halt

摘要

MEPs complained this week that they often get translated amendments to proposals only the night before a vote and one senior politician admitted that he sometimes made a mistake in voting as a result. The chaos over the translation of amendments came into sharp focus when many of the 243 amendments on the controversial revision of the framework directive on waste were not translated in time for Tuesday's meeting so the rapporteur Caroline Jackson (UK, European People's Party) secured a postponement of the discussion until next week.