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Mrs Torres Marques, I have listened very closely to what you have to say, but I do not quite understand what you mean when you talk about the possibility of our cutting the budget. The previous programming period finished at the end of 1999. We are now in a new programming period, and it is this period that I basically have to worry about in terms of my accountability, which does not prevent me from being highly attentive, in conjunction with Mrs Schreyer, and under the control of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, to the balancing of accounts for previous programmes. Now, I also have some concerns in this area, some of which concern Objective 2, Objective 1 and Cohesion Fund appropriations that date some way back.
I would, however, reiterate that Portugal did indeed handle matters well in the previous period. I am simply observing, and I have given you the figures as at 26 September, that the appropriations actually committed by Portugal, for the new period – I have only been a member of the Commission for a year – stand at 2.6%. You have heard me: 2.6%.
I am quite familiar with the General Regulation on the Structural Fund and on the Cohesion Fund, and I am aware that they are not governed by the same rules. I would thus issue a warning: Watch out! It will not be possible to re-programme or rebudget for subsequent years, and there is a risk of losing a number of Cohesion Fund appropriations.
I have written to Mrs Ferreira, with whom I have had very good and constructive relations, to state my concerns. I know that your country is making great efforts to present a sufficient number of projects. We will validate the technical content of these projects as swiftly as possible so that your country, like the other Cohesion Fund countries, is not made to suffer and is able to benefit from all the appropriations in question."@en1
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