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"Mr President, Commissioner, the rapporteurs Mrs Haug and Mr Ferber have drafted their first report on next year’s EU budget. I wish them both luck in the task facing them. Drafting the budget means spending taxpayers’ money. For that reason the work is important and calls for stringent budgetary discipline. There are many areas that call for financing, but there are only a few vital ones. Only the vital areas can receive public funding.
In addition to stringent budgetary discipline we wish to stress the following: our Group gives its full support to the package of reforms as proposed by Mr Kinnock. Activity-Based Budgeting and management will be the cornerstones of these reforms. They will emphasise the importance of personal responsibility, diminish the bureaucratic load and enhance efficiency. But the reforms will require cooperation with the staff. That is why we have to prepare carefully for the forthcoming talks regarding the reform of staff regulations. The current staffing structure has to be clarified and made more flexible, so as to facilitate the reallocation of funds, for example. The work of reform might also demand additional budgetary proposals, which we urge the Commission to be prepared for.
Mrs Haug’s report stresses the importance of culture as a means of creating jobs. Culture as such falls within the competence of the Member States. However, culture as a means of livelihood is an area which is rapidly growing in importance. For that reason we support the report insofar as it emphasises the importance of developing this within the framework of structural action. In a later debate on the budget we wish to draw attention to the matter of sufficient appropriations for science and research and financing the fight against exclusion in all its forms, within the meaning of Article 13 of the Treaty. Our group also believes that Category 1 of the financial perspective – agricultural expenditure – should not be used as a primary source of financing in response to needs that become manifest in external policy.
With regard to Mr Ferber’s report, we would like to remark that we are disinclined to take a position on the details as yet, including the establishment of posts. Nevertheless, we consider it vital that reforms concerning members’ rules be established promptly, in accordance with earlier agreements."@en1
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