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Madam President, I would like to start by thanking the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, particularly Mr Rapkay, who has tabled this excellent motion for a resolution.
I greatly welcome the support pledged by the committee with this report for a rigorous state aid control policy.
Listening to this brief but interesting debate, I believe I can see a wide consensus, as, moreover, has been pointed out, between the different parties represented in Parliament. I believe I can also see a non-ideological approach, and I feel that the more we succeed in producing information tools, the more we will be able to move away from reasoning solely in terms of ideologies and place ourselves in a position to assess the qualitative as well as the quantitative aspects of state aid.
I welcome the fact that the committee calls on Member States to live up to the commitment they entered into at the Stockholm European Council, which Mrs Kauppi has just mentioned, to reduce state aid as a proportion of GDP.
Despite the positive developments of recent years, I too feel that there is still room for further reduction of state aid in the Member States. I essentially agree that a careful reassessment of the relationship between regional policy and competition policy must be carried out for the period after 2006.
I also share the concern expressed in the motion for a resolution regarding returning regional policy to national control, given that some of the economically stronger Member States are arguing that a reduction in Structural Funds expenditure should be offset by greater tolerance with regard to national aid. I see this as an extremely worrying trend.
I am very pleased with the positive reaction of the committee and the Rapkay report to two instruments which might not yet be as user-friendly as we would like. For our part, we will endeavour to constantly improve the State Aid Scoreboard and the state aid register now available on the Internet. There is no longer any need for me to describe these two instruments – you are quite familiar with them – and from now on the scoreboard, in particular, will make it possible to share useful information through Internet connections with the Member States and, with the introduction of the second edition, with the European Parliament as well.
What is more, the state aid register supplements the scoreboard, providing more detailed information in a less aggregate form on each case of aid, specifying the sectors and businesses concerned."@en1
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