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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Additionality2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000317.5.5-048"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-17-Speech-5-0492
lpv:speaker	lp:José Ribeiro E Castro2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (1999-11-22--2000-05-22)3 member; UEN (1999-11-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; EMPL (1999-12-02--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (1999-12-09--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-11-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to reiterate the words of Mr Miller, who spoke earlier – and who is regrettably no longer in the Chamber – when he criticised the authors of this question by saying that our main task is to ensure that the rules are complied with. The first rules that need to be complied with are those in the Treaty, in this case, Article 158, which takes the objective of economic and social cohesion to its highest level. Our task is to ensure that following on from this, the Commission’s regulations and behaviour attain and serve to attain these objectives. Our task is also to be alert enough here to criticise and to raise the issue whenever we see that this is not being done. We support the good timing and the reasoning of the issues raised by the authors of the oral question and we agree with the comments that have already been made here. We call on the Commission to exert more pressure to ensure that these instruments are used effectively in favour of the regions with the greatest needs, instead of, as it seems to us, letting the objective of economic and social cohesion go cold. This subject is obviously a delicate one, and its development has been discussed at great length over the years, with many rules being regularly revised, but what we cannot accept is that the revision of these rules and the development of the bureaucracy always hit the most needy. We cannot, for example, accept the fact that problems have been raised about allocating funds to regions which are eligible under various programmes, because if these regions are eligible for various funds it is precisely because their needs are the greatest, and anything that hinders the operation of these funds holds back their development and threatens the objective of economic and social cohesion. Similarly, we do not accept that the Commission should in any way associate itself with the degree of inertia shown by some national governments who are not prepared to support the regions with the greatest needs. We therefore call on the Commission to… ( )"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"The President cut the speaker off"1

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