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"Mr President, I want to thank Mrs Morgan for her report and to say that I believe it is an important report and good report. It has been the product good cooperation at the committee level and I want to acknowledge that Mr Pomés Ruiz and Mrs Theato made their contribution too. This report will go some way towards clarifying the responsibilities that we have and helping the European Commission as well to understand what its role is and what is expected of it. I would also like to echo the words of Mr Mulder when he spoke of the importance of the procedure for granting discharge and stressed that it must be taken extremely seriously. The people who work on the Committee on Budgetary Control sometimes do not realise the importance of this instrument in guiding the work of the Community in so many fields of their responsibility. We must pursue this task with firmness but also with moderation and understanding and we must understand that over the years – perhaps because public spending at European level was such a small percentage of the entire public spending of the European Union, 1% as against 40% on average by the Member States – it was seen as a detail. I think it is true to say that it was very hard to get the Member States to understand that they had to apply the same concern and the same care to guarding the resources of the Union that they did to guarding their own resources.
I heard – and it is not an isolated incident – the United Kingdom Minister for Social Welfare say on television that if he could stop fraud he could save GBP 6 billion. He said that quite honestly and regretted that it was so. But if a European Commissioner said that we would expect them to resign the next morning. So let us understand that fraud is not a problem peculiar to the European Union."@en1
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