Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-18-Speech-2-308"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Response to Second Report of Committee of Independent Experts2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000118.10.2-308"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-18-Speech-2-3092
lpv:speaker	lp:Freddy Blak2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (1999-07-20--2002-12-08)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; CONT (1999-07-21--2001-12-11)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2001-12-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should very much like to thank the rapporteur for his splendid report. I hope that the Commission will use it in its reform work. The process of reform has been going on for some time, and something like a state of emergency seems to prevail in the Commission. The Commission’s administration simply does not function particularly well. Naturally, there are good, capable employees in the Commission, and they are in the majority. But we need radical reform. There is too little action and too much unnecessary bureaucracy. People should have clearly-defined powers to take decisions for which they should also be accountable. The Financial Regulation should be amended. We agree that we should have better control of the finances. It is just a question of how. The Commission and the Committee of Independent Experts are in favour of completely doing away with financial control. We should be careful about this. We should retain some form of financial control. It is not enough simply to carry out spot checks once the money has been spent. This would allow too many anomalous projects to slip through. Instead, we should be reforming and decentralising control. The Commission does not have enough staff. As Members of the European Parliament, we must have the courage to explain to our governments and people back home that the Commission’s staff resources are not at all adequate for the tasks which have been assigned to it. And the Commission should be able to refuse new tasks if it does not also get the extra staff it needs. The staffing system is too rigid. There should be a more frequent rotation of employees, especially at the top of the hierarchy. It should also be much easier to sack inefficient and incompetent employees. I am therefore very pleased that the disciplinary procedure is to be reformed. After all, the very bad experiences so far with disciplinary proceedings show all too clearly how necessary it is that we carry out reforms."@en1

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