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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I must firstly express my satisfaction at the proposed regulation on the principles for registers of taxes and social contributions in accordance with the criteria of the European system of national and regional accounts (ESA 95). I say ‘satisfaction’ because the approval of this regulation takes us closer to a transparent system which is comparable in the various Member States in relation to the calculation of the public deficit.
I must say that, in general, the joint position of the Council largely includes the criteria of the European Parliament’s position. I say ‘in general’ because, even though, thanks to the notable absence of some MEPs on the left, the benches on the right managed to introduce an amendment on the possibility of the Council considering agreeing to an adaptation period for the application of the regulation, the Council interprets that the Member States will have the right to request this delay of the application of this transitional period but that, in all cases, the Commission will be able to reject that postponement if the request is not sufficiently well-founded.
When we talk about a unified Europe in an economic and financial sense, this unification must clearly be carried out on the basis of honesty and transparency, because no other method is acceptable, and the regulation – which I hope will be approved – has precisely the virtue of eliminating those practices, which unfortunately are very wide-spread in certain Member States, which tend to disguise – so to speak – situations of deficit, by using various different accounting methods.
Therefore, on the contrary, we will take the direction of seriousness in accounting in order to prevent behaviour – as I have said – which is less than transparent, if not fraudulent.
I therefore repeat that the joint position of the Council must be supported, in my opinion, because this regulation introduces a mechanism for adapting to the European System of Accounts 95 which ensures, effectively, comparability and transparency in the public accounting of the Member States in areas as sensitive and important as those relating to the calculation of the public deficit. This approval also ensures that the right to request adaptation periods is counterbalanced by the right to reject such a period if it is not well founded.
Finally, I must ask the Commissioner present today, because I have asked this repeatedly, to express, in this plenary session, an effective commitment to this Parliament for the presentation of an offprint to the regulation in relation to the registers and calculation of VAT own resources, because – I must remind you – the approval of the joint position was, in my view, linked to this commitment. I therefore repeat this request here in plenary session."@en1
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