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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2001 budget (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001212.7.2-140"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-12-Speech-2-1412
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Mulder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, firstly, I too would like to thank all those who contributed to the determination of the budget, the Commissioner, the Council and the rapporteurs. I would also particularly like to thank Mr Wynn, who, I believe is seeing out his first full year as chairman of the Committee on Budgets during a budgetary procedure, and I think he has made an outstanding job of it. I am satisfied with this budget. I am particularly satisfied because we stayed within the financial perspective again. I believe Parliament must uphold its agreements, and they can only be broken in cases of extreme need. I have not identified any such cases this year. The Commissioner is still proud of this and says that the agricultural expenditure will increase by an enormous percentage this year as compared with previous years. That is indeed the case but then these are agreements that must be kept. They were concluded before she became Commissioner and I think it would be to her credit if she were to uphold the Berlin agreements. What else has a bearing on the agricultural budget? We are all familiar with the content of the letter of amendment in October and if all goes well, if the dollar stays at 91 cents, then we could end up with a surplus of approximately EUR 1.3 billion in category 1A. Suppose that does not happen and Mr Duisenberg says it is not going to happen, how are we to finance the BSE crisis? That is what I want to know. Are we going to make cuts in other agricultural expenditure, are we going to defer it to other years, is it still possible to use the surplus for 2000 or can we devise an insurance system, which already features in an earlier parliamentary resolution?"@en1

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