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lpv:speaker	lp:Eryl Margaret McNALLY2
lpv:spoken text	". – Madam President, our committee covers 120 budget lines, some very large indeed, including the research programmes Tacis, Phare and Meda. The implementation of those lines has been heavily criticised in the past. My first point is about the expenditure in 2000 of the Synergy programme, which is a programme to further international cooperation in the energy sector, and one strongly supported by the European Parliament. I am sure you can imagine, Commissioner, our astonishment and dismay when the Commission abandoned this programme in the year 2000, cancelled a call for tenders already published, causing huge inconvenience, and proceeded to spend no money at all throughout the year 2000. I cannot emphasise strongly enough that this is unacceptable behaviour and that the relevant Commissioner is well aware of our views. I am pleased to say that remedial action has been taken and we look forward to an enhanced programme in this very important sector. I turn now to the Tacis programme on nuclear safety in the former Soviet Union. This has regularly been severely – and rightly – criticised in the past. It is work which is carried out in difficult conditions, in an area where slackness and inefficiency in the implementation of budgets was traditional. We note with pleasure a marked improvement and look forward to reassurance about the safety of nuclear installations in the former Soviet Union. I would like to thank colleagues from the Committee on Budgetary Control for their cooperation in helping us to undertake the very important work of scrutiny on which our committee, could spend all its time on if we wished to."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McNally (PSE ),"1 "draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Industry, External trade, Research and Energy"1

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