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"Mr President, Mr Kinnock talked at the beginning of his speech about the necessary financial requirements, and today at noon in the vote on the supplementary and amending budget no. 4/99, we shall make 92 million available to the Agency. But I am also saying, and this is a request to the Commission, that the piecemeal approach adopted in relation to the supplementary and amending budgets must come to an end, for it has little to do with creative budget policy but is instead reminiscent of creative accounting.
It would therefore be as well, Mrs Schreyer – in view too of the foreseeable problems with the supplementary budgets for the year 2000 – to find an adequate solution to this issue by December’s Second Reading of the Budget for the year 2000. The Council is not even in fact represented from an administrative point of view, and if it has already reached a common position without waiting to hear of Parliament’s position, then it is also a matter here of putting the question of a new culture of responsibility and of better co-operation very much higher up on the agenda for public discussion in Europe.
But we have some time. The Council will not formally be taking a close look at this matter and making a final decision until 11 October. Mrs Pack has made it very clear that the amendment to the regulation contains extremely positive signs, namely in connection with the questions of decentralisation, the opening up of invitations to tender, and much more besides. But if the compromise over the location of the Reconstruction Agency ends up looking like Mrs Pack has presented it – on the one hand Pristina, on the other hand the integrated arrangement of Thessaloniki – then it is that much more important that basic questions should be clarified; that the entire undertaking should take place under the responsibility of the Commission; that the Agency should not be structured in such a way that, even more than already existing agencies, it straddles individual nation states; that OLAF can ascertain that the job plan is being set out separately; that the budgetary powers of the European Parliament are safeguarded; and that, if the work concerned is extended, the European Parliament will continue to be involved. Therefore, it would be good, Mrs Schreyer and Mr Kinnock, if, in the spirit of new co-operation under the five-point programme, the Commission could make a new proposal on the basis of our amendment. In this way, we can achieve a satisfactory solution in terms of the regulation, and this dispute will not be introduced into the normal budget procedures. I do not want to introduce it into these but will on principle reserve for myself the option to do so if the Council does not move on the issue."@en1
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