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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Peres, I am very pleased that you have accepted the Commission proposal so positively and I would like to thank you very warmly for the work you have done. Your report shows that, by and large, we are in agreement. The financial involvement of the Community in the surveillance expenditure of the Member States has so far yielded very positive results. Since, however, there are still many shortcomings to rectify in the area of surveillance, it must continue. Indeed the new measures must be adapted to current circumstances, as you called for in your report.
Now I will come to the amendments. The Commission is able to accept Amendments Nos 1, 2, 5 and 6 as they stand. Amendment No 3 seeks to add an additional recital, Recital 12, on the budgetary mechanism. We agree with you on the merits of the issue. There is no problem with that. But we do not think it is necessary to present the entire budgetary mechanism in the form of a recital. Moreover, it is also superfluous, because there is no equivalent in the procedural part of the decision.
The Commission is unable to accept Amendment No 4, which calls for the reimbursement of up to 100% of the expenditure of Member States by the Community, as this would mean that the Community would not only take on 100% sole financial responsibility but also the accompanying sole political responsibility.
As far as Amendment No 7 is concerned, the Commission is unfortunately unable to keep to the proposed date of 30 June to take a decision on the choice of surveillance expenditure which will be co-financed by the Community. The reason for this is that the Member States are to be given time up to this date to send us their reports on their surveillance expenditure. And we can only take a decision afterwards. But in future years we will be able to take our decision by 30 June. A change to the comitology procedure in this case, as you propose, is unfortunately not impossible."@en1
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