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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-11-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report – 20002
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011113.2.2-032"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-11-13-Speech-2-0332
lpv:speaker	lp:Herbert Bösch2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (1999-09-16--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; CONT (1999-07-21--2001-12-11)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I have a couple of observations to make. First, we need to recognise that, once again, the Court of Auditors has been unable to give a positive statement of assurance in respect of Commission expenditure. I want to resist our gradually starting to regard the abnormal as being the norm. We can perhaps do that in this case, but certainly not outside this area. If this statement of assurance is procedurally weak, then I expect the Court of Auditors to make a statement to that effect. Otherwise we must note that there is a weakness in Commission expenditure that needs to be criticised politically speaking. My second point is that I am very grateful to you, Commissioner, for having highlighted the link between today's debate on progress reports in connection with enlargement and the report of the Court of Auditors. The Court of Auditors has told us that in respect of the new pre-accession instruments there was actually a zero expenditure policy in 2000. That means that in practice – and the Commission is talking about the first candidate countries acceding in 2004 – we have already wasted 20% of the time available in the financial area. And that means of course that we will have to work even harder in the coming years in order to implement the pre-accession instruments properly. My third point is a comment about OLAF. I was surprised, Mr Karlsson, that your report more or less suggested that by adding a reserve for setting up OLAF, Parliament had affected the independence of that body. We felt obliged to do this when the Commission – as you know – simply transferred all UCLAF's staff to OLAF, and apparently thought the job was done. And all the more so when we discovered from the OLAF Monitoring Committee for which you have such high regard that OLAF's independence genuinely was at risk. Now that we have been able to deal with the Commission, and I would specifically like to thank Mrs Schreyer for that, we have a new problem. This is an area where I believe the Commission should step in, Mrs Schreyer. The new Berlusconi government is now blocking one of the central posts in the new OLAF. I would be grateful if we could all pull together on this one."@en1

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