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"On behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Control, I would also like to offer my congratulations to Mr Costa Neves for guiding us so far and for the very good job that he has done.
I have been asked by my committee to raise a number of points, the main one being the amendment that we are retabling on the Court of Auditors. As the House will know, the Court of Auditors asked for a number of new staff.
The Council recommended that only five new staff be granted and various positions have been taken on the additional staff requested and the money for them. The Committee on Budgetary Control decided quite wisely, in my view, that we should take an apolitical stance on this. We should ask the Court of Auditors to assess the performance of financial control systems in the applicant countries; improve the Court of Auditors' cooperation with the national audit institutions – which is a requirement of the Treaty of Nice – and establish more detailed specific DAS assessments – again, a requirement of the Treaty of Nice. We would therefore be fairly apolitical and once those issues had been clarified, we would ask for the money to be released for the other posts.
However, in the Committee on Budgets a completely different amendment was tabled. It is much more political, and we are very worried about the independence of the Court of Auditors in relation to the requirements set down by the Committee on Budgets, so I do hope that will be considered.
I have also been asked to say a word about implementation. We have looked at the implementation figures and we will continue to look at them in the future and use them for future amendments to the budget. You have our full backing on everything you have done in getting better information on implementation for us so far.
We have also looked at tabling amendments. We have an amendment coming through asking for money to be tied up and asking the Commission to tell us whether an evaluation unit has been set up in DG V.
Finally, we are very concerned about the future of the A-30 lines, or rather how they are going to be spent. Those are the points that the Committee on Budgetary Control would like to raise."@en1
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