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Mr President, firstly I would like to thank all the speakers for their comments. It is clear that the aim of this action, as Mr Fatuzzo has said, is to try to ensure that the figures correspond to reality as far as possible and that there is no underestimation of national public deficits.
The work carried out by Parliament and the Council has been enormously useful. The Commission fully approves the joint position of the Council, which now includes the various amendments tabled by Parliament at first reading. However, two points have been raised which to a certain extent are still to be clarified. The first one refers to Article 7(2), that is, the possibility that the Commission may have a certain margin for discretion with regard to the granting of transitional periods. In this case, all the Commission requires is that those periods be genuinely justified. We are therefore perfectly able to accept that the Commission should commit itself to granting these requests provided that the Member States involved can objectively justify that it is difficult for them to immediately apply the provisions of the regulation.
We believe that the game of clarity should apply on both sides. The Commission clearly must not deny these periods when there is objective justification for them, but it is essential that the objective justifications exist if a transitional period is to be granted. Otherwise, we would not be serving the objective of the regulation.
The second point refers to the setting of VAT and the calculation of VAT own resources. With regard to the amendments which were presented at the time on this issue, the Commission is clearly committed to taking a different route, since we have no difficulty with the basic idea.
On this specific point, I would like to point out that the Commission had committed itself on second reading to presenting another proposal for a European Parliament and Council regulation to deal with this specific issue, and today I can tell you that the Commission approved its proposal on 20 September and it has been forwarded to Parliament and the Council. I therefore hope that this issue will be resolved as soon as this new regulation is approved.
It simply remains for me to express my satisfaction at Parliament’s support for the work of the Commission, and to thank the rapporteur, Mr Knörr, for his cooperation and his excellent work in relation to this text."@en1
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