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"Mr MacCormick, thank you for highlighting this point. Ladies and gentlemen, you must expect a Commissioner to implement the policy which you want and to comply with the texts and regulations laid down by you and the Council. In this specific case, I said ‘a weakness’. When I say ‘weakness’, Mr Nogueira, Mr MacCormick, I do not just note that it exists, fold my arms and say: ‘That's how it is, there is nothing I can do!’ I am not a fatalist. So, as soon as we start preparing the new regional policy for 2006 and 2013, I shall ensure that account is taken of these weaknesses and shall submit my proposals.
There is probably another point which needs revising, as Mr MacCormick has pointed out, and that is that we need to check if the principle of additionality is being applied and we can only do so at national level for both Objective 1 and Objective 2. That is our problem. We can confirm that the principle is being applied at national level and, at the same time, that it is not being applied in a region where it is needed. That is what Mr MacCormick has highlighted.
Again vigilance is my watchword and has been, especially vis-à-vis the United Kingdom. I ask questions, I draw attention to specific cases pointed out to me, as the honourable Member has done. Nonetheless, I must also say that the regulation does not allow me, on this precise point, to issue instructions. I can do no more than demonstrate that I am keen to enter into dialogue and that I am available, in the case which you have pointed out to me and in every other case, to do so as actively as possible, while at the same time complying with the general regulation of the Structural Funds."@en1
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