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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by congratulating all the rapporteurs involved for their work on this vast subject.
In my opinion, the discharge procedure is a fundamental part of our work and is one of the distinguishing powers of our institution: the power by virtue of which we verify, year after year, that the good intentions and resolves, and also the expectations of the citizens who elected us and for whom we are responsible first and foremost, are fulfilled.
This subject is both extremely technical and extremely political, and the consequences for both sectors of decisions taken in haste or under emotional stress can be – and, unfortunately, do often turn out to be – disastrous. That is why I feel that we should ask ourselves before the vote, each year, not so much whether everything has been done perfectly but rather whether we are going in the right direction, whether we are setting ourselves the right priorities, whether, in the executive action of the Commission and – to a much lesser extent – all the other institutions, there is evidence of the intention to implement the will of the two arms of the budgetary authority as well as possible.
Concentrating especially on Mr McCartin’s report and, therefore, on the Commission’s budget, I feel that three points warrant particular emphasis; indeed, the rapporteur himself has already stressed them. Firstly, the financial year 2000 has been characterised by an exceptional level of overspending with regard to the budget, which shows that the budgetary forecasts were severely short of the mark. Secondly, although 2000 marked the start of a new programming period for the Structural Funds and preacession aid which stretches until 2006, this cannot have been very successful given that so many difficulties were encountered in implementation. Lastly – and this point may well be more important than the previous two – the rapporteur was right to point out the need to establish, on the one hand, the features of Community management which should be the basis for effectiveness but are deficient, and, on the other, the components within the system which are conducive to fraud and irregularity
These are, in my opinion, the areas we must address if we are to achieve proper, sound implementation of the budget in the coming years."@en1
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