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dcterms:Date	"2002-04-09"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020409.3.2-033"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-09-Speech-2-0342
lpv:speaker	lp:Gary Titley2
lpv:spoken text	". – Madam President, for the Committee on Foreign Affairs there are two key issues in this discharge: transparency and implementation. On transparency, I had an interesting time when I asked Parliament's officials if they could let me have a list of what the Commission had done on the 2000 budget in relation to those items to which Parliament had adopted amendments to the budget, in terms of both amounts of money and also remarks. I was told that, even if it were possible, it would take several months to find this information. That is totally ridiculous because, if Parliament adopts amendments to the budget, it is elementary that there should be a mechanism to follow up on those amendments to know exactly what has happened. The fault lies in part with Parliament, because we do not scrutinise and follow up the budget as we should. I do not blame the Committee on Budgetary Control but the individual committees which do not often take that responsibility. The fault also lies with the Commission because we need greater clarity of information in order to analyse budget implementation. There should be much better dialogue between Parliament and the Commission to identify very clearly what action has been taken on European Parliament priorities. I suspect the Commission far too often simply ignores what Parliament amends in the budget. We need to be able to indicate that. On the common foreign and security policy, we need greater clarity: we are not clear on who does what. That is why I support the idea of an interinstitutional agreement setting out exactly the Commission's role in the CFSP. On implementation, there was for the 2000 budget again a very high concentration of commitments at the end of the year for Latin America, Asia and so on. The imbalance between commitments and payments continues to give cause for concern, as indeed do the remarks of the Court of the Auditors in relation to the TACIS programme. I recognise the improvements the Commission has made – in particular the use of the website to provide information – but we have to focus on transparency and implementation."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 chair; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-03-13--2002-09-24)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2002-09-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2003-05-20)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Titley (PSE ),"1 "draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy"1

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