Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-12-Speech-2-186"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-06-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development of the external service2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010612.10.2-186"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-06-12-Speech-2-1872
lpv:speaker	lp:Freddy Blak2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (1999-07-20--2002-12-08)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; CONT (1999-07-21--2001-12-11)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2001-12-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, first of all, I want to thank the rapporteur. He has prepared a splendid report, and I am, of course, also glad that he has accepted my action plan in its entirety. I am, in general, very much in favour of the Commission’s plans to provide its delegations with more resources, more employees and more powers but, all too often, we have seen examples of ‘champagne delegations’ which have spent more time in diplomatic clubs than on their real work. In their defence, it may be said that they have had neither powers nor resources under the old system. Many problems with aid projects are due to the fact that the projects are administered centrally from Brussels. In the future, the work is therefore to be done out in the field. The new system is still not in place, but 24 delegations have, for the time being, been given direct financial responsibility. I hope that, as soon as possible, we can see the valuable experience gained in, for example, Bosnia transferred to the remainder of the delegations. The idea of giving the delegations more duties and more responsibility does in fact operate in practice, but we have recently seen examples of fraud and irregularities in the delegations in the applicant countries. I am thinking especially of Slovakia and the Czech Republic in this context. The Commission must issue Parliament with supervisory reports on the delegations, but I am not asking to see the reports themselves because I appreciate that they contain sensitive personal information. What I like to see, however, are reports on the financial aspects. The Commission has already promised me these in connection with the 1999 discharge, and I now hope that the Commission will go on to deliver the goods."@en1
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