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dcterms:Date	"2001-04-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2002 budget guidelines/ Financial perspective2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010403.3.2-051"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-03-Speech-2-0522
lpv:speaker	lp:Den Dover2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, can I first congratulate the two rapporteurs, Mr Costa Neves and Mrs Buitenweg on their excellent presentation of the expectations for next year. I am sure that Parliament is properly under control for that period. This morning I want to concentrate on just one issue: structural funding. Why it has not yet been fully used and what should its future be? I want to be both controversial and constructive. Either through poor administration or delayed planning of what should happen and what should be approved by the European authorities, and perhaps in conjunction with the national authorities, we are behind on spending on structural funding both for inner-cities and rural areas. Now, I want to be controversial and I am spelling out that word, because I do not agree that all we should do is push back the spending and get an enormous lump in four or five years time. We should be looking ahead. When enlargement takes place, the countries coming into the European Union will be expecting structural funding; the very funding which our existing countries will be deprived of because they will not be able to benefit if we have to satisfy one budget on structural funding. In other words, the new countries will expect and should obtain funding for their requirements. My way around this is to say that the funds that have not been used so far should be lost to the system. As we have heard, this is the intention. But why not take advantage of that straight away? Why not send back the funding that has not been used to the countries who pay the contributions? They are mainly the ones hit by foot-and-mouth. They need to use that money to compensate for the crisis in rural areas."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Dover (PPE-DE )."1

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