Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-30-Speech-3-191"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Financial Regulation applicable to the EC general budget2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010530.11.3-191"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-30-Speech-3-1922
lpv:speaker	lp:Kyösti Virrankoski2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Keskusta (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, to start with I would like to thank the rapporteur, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, for his excellent report. Drawing it up, analysing the proposed amendments and presenting compromises was an enormous task. In that respect, this report and its preparation are in a class of their own. At the same time I would like to thank Michiel van Hulten for excellent teamwork. Renewing the Financial Regulation is the most important step in modernising the administration of the Commission and the whole of the EU. Its most important objective is to improve the efficiency of administration, clarify personal responsibility and speed up the movement of funds. The EU has a poor reputation as a payer of bills as payments are made many times more slowly than would be acceptable in the world of business and when making payments in Member States. However, the greatest reason for reform is to clarify personal responsibility and financial accountability. This can only be achieved once both administrative and financial responsibility are clearly united under the same people as is now being done. Renewing the Financial Regulation is essential to improving the efficiency of administration. It opens up the opportunity to develop results-based management and activity-based budgeting. In this way the work of offices and bodies can be managed more on the basis of goals and results rather than on the basis of supervision and detailed instructions. Bureaucracy will be reduced and at the same time the bodies will be given the opportunity to improve their own working methods themselves. This would also increase their own responsibility for their work. However, achieving reform means reforming personnel regulations, which would require good cooperation with employee organisations, among others. However, change is absolutely essential. Finally, I would like to present some details that are important to my group. A three-year ceiling must be set for the use of funds granted, after which the funds unused would be cancelled. Transferring funds to the following year is an important tool in flexible budgeting policy. In principle we support the proposals of the rapporteur."@en1

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