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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:FAIR Programme2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001113.7.1-081"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-13-Speech-1-0822
lpv:speaker	lp:Herbert Bösch2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (1999-09-16--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; CONT (1999-07-21--2001-12-11)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to congratulate the rapporteur very warmly on this report. I believe that it is very fair and very restrained and has turned out to be very balanced, and accordingly it did, of course, also receive the unanimous support of the Committee. I should just like to touch on a few points which are, in my opinion, decisive for the future work of monitoring research in general. In this regard, it seems to me important to listen to what our draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Fisheries said, which was that, at the end of the day, it is impossible to carry out a clear inspection in the interests of the taxpayers whom we represent and to monitor efficiency if no clear objectives are defined beforehand. This seems to me to be one of the main criticisms made in the Court of Auditors’ report. Quite simply, this makes it difficult to measure the efficiency of the programme. My second point concerns the hierarchy of staff with powers of authorisation. Here, Commissioner, overlaps which are actually unacceptable have occurred. In Paragraph 59 in the Court of Auditors’ report, this is illustrated relatively clearly. If someone who is entitled to authorise payments and who has allocated 98% of the appropriations available in 1996 is made subordinate to the dossier manager, then this leads to an impossible situation. The Commission’s official reply to this in the file, that there was another Director-General involved, is extremely lame. After all, I do not believe that anyone who has anything to do with financial management and also with financial control would be able to accept an answer of this kind. I hope, Commissioner, that where the reform of the Commission is concerned, to which Mrs Morgan has already referred, we will not only attach importance to reforming the Financial Regulation, but also, and above all, to implementing the existing Financial Regulation in full. The Financial Regulation is very wisely conceived and it provides for everything to be kept wonderfully separate, but in practice they must not be mixed up, and this seems to have been the case here. Commissioner, in the near future – and then also with the work of the new Commission in mind – we will have to deal with further Court of Auditors’ reports or audit reports, such as the one on the Joint Research Centre, which has turned out to be very critical, but also the special audit report on a very unusual contract with a consultancy firm. I hope that we will then also see a desire to actually make improvements in the areas mentioned by Mrs Langenhagen."@en1

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