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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen of the House, ladies and gentlemen of the Commission, the statements made by some of my fellow Members have already contributed significantly towards expressing the discontent aroused by the report on discharge. I should like to address you in the same vein.
Mrs Stauner’s initial report on discharge for the year 1998 gave rise to a great many questions and criticisms, which were expressed, in particular, in the vote in favour of an amendment noting the discrepancies between the compromise resolution and the explanatory statement. In drawing up her second report, the rapporteur apparently did not take account of her fellow members’ general lack of satisfaction. Once again, we must deplore Mrs Stauner’s method. She kept on asking the Commission for more and more information, going beyond the recommendations made in the resolution adopted on 13 April. Today she is still asking questions which have already been explicitly answered. This attitude has led the majority of members of the Committee on Budgetary Control to make radical changes to the draft report. This is the reason why the text on which we are to vote during this part-session is substantially different from the initial draft.
This text does now afford us a more comprehensive overview of the Commission’s implementation of the 1998 budget, but at the price of a political conflict dominated by a feeling of frustration. We can only deplore the far from constructive attitude of the rapporteur both within the parliamentary committee and with regard to the European Commission. We cannot fail to note the same petty political excesses that some of us already condemned in the initial report on discharge for the year 1998.
Our objective must be to work in close collaboration with the Commission in the interest of our fellow citizens and of the implementation of our policies, and to make the discharge report a proper assessment of the implementation of the European Union budget in both quantitative and qualitative terms."@en1
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