Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-29-Speech-3-161"

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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.20000329.9.3-161"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-29-Speech-3-1622
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Mulder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I too would like to start by wishing Mrs Haug, and also the Commissioner, every success with their first budget and the many stages they still have to get through before they can sign it off in December. I could not agree more with Mrs Haug when she stated in her introduction that she favours a thrifty budget. I share this view. I believe this is the least we owe our electorate, for a number of reasons. This year too, discussion will focus on what we must do in the Balkans, and particularly in Kosovo. My position is roughly the same as the one I took last year. I am prepared to get involved, but I want to know exactly how much money it will cost first. A figure of 5.5 billion has been plucked out of the air, but no one has made out a satisfactory case for this as yet. I also agree with many other speakers that it is unacceptable for one category of the budget to have to be saddled with covering these costs. We should use the relevant budget items for this and perhaps turn to agriculture from time to time when there is actually money left over in this category. In short, amending the financial perspective is not an end in itself, but should only be undertaken, in my view, as an absolute last resort. My final point does not relate specifically to next year, but to the years to come. A tiny amount of the whole agriculture budget is to be earmarked for the outbreak of infectious animal diseases. I believe that if we were to have another swine fever crisis in Europe, or a BSE crisis, it would cost the earth. I therefore feel that the Commission should get down to work as quickly as possible on an insurance system for outbreaks of infectious animal diseases of this kind."@en1

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