Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-12-Speech-2-288"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Reform of budgetary control procedures2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001212.13.2-288"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-12-Speech-2-2892
lpv:speaker	lp:Paulo Casaca2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-22--2001-12-11)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to start by commending the timeliness of this initiative and the diligence with which our rapporteur, Eluned Morgan, has carried it out. The aim of the discharge procedure is to analyse processes and procedures in force and to detect any inadequacies in them so that the institutions can then proceed to reform them. To achieve this aim fully, I shall highlight four requirements that I consider essential in the work of the budgetary control authority. First of all, balance in considering all the budget headings: it is unacceptable that the analysis of own resources performed by the Court of Auditors should explicitly exclude all revenue from undeclared economic activities, in contrast to the zeal with which it treats many administrative elements, sometimes with no substantive content, of various forms of expenditure. Secondly, transparency with regard to cases and events: whenever the Court of Auditors refers to specific cases it should identify the institutions involved, thus taking responsibility for the claims that it makes. Thirdly, thoroughness of analysis: it is incomprehensible that a large number of high quality special reports by the Court of Auditors are omitted from the Annual Report in favour of other matters treated without any prior analysis and on the basis of debatable criteria of political timeliness. Fourthly, accuracy in the use of statistics: statistics can be a valuable tool for analysis but they can also be a dangerous tool for distorting reality. Using statistics to compare irregularities detected by different institutions as a result of strict or not so strict controls may be more liable to hide what is happening than to expose it. High rates of detected irregularities may just as well indicate the zeal of enforcement authorities as suggest corruption in the regulatory system."@en1

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