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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2001 budgetary guidelines2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000329.9.3-148"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-29-Speech-3-1492
lpv:speaker	lp:Margrietus van den Berg2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, firstly I would like to thank the Committee on Budgets for their excellent cooperation. A number of points have been taken on board. We advocate making radical changes to Budget 2001, firstly by basing the various categories and types of expenditure on modern DAC 1 and DAC 2 categories. This may be double Dutch to some people, but in practice it would enable us to see which poverty eradication categories the money is spent on, and also to give an account of the situation in these terms at a later date. As matters stand, it is impossible to say how much of the money earmarked for poverty eradication is spent on primary education. We must not carry on this way. We want to see more money in this category being spent on primary education and primary health care, and more on the least developed countries, not by increasing the overall amount, but by apportioning it differently, so that the poverty focus is taken seriously. Thirdly, we want the EDF expenditure outside Parliament’s budget to be integrated, not because we have something to say about this – although we would very much like to – but at the very least, so that people can see the important uses to which the overall expenditure is being put in our efforts to eradicate poverty. Otherwise, it would not be worthwhile producing yet another annual report on this expenditure. Lastly, our opinion makes it clear that we want to group the various budget lines together under various headings, so as to afford a better and more coherent overview of this budget, rather than having dozens of budget lines, which makes the budget opaque to anyone who cares to study it. We want transparency. And fortunately we are very much of the same mind as the Committee on Budgets on that score. It is not so much about providing more money, as spending what we have more effectively, and creating greater accountability."@en1

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