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Madam President, the Commission is not satisfied with the level of the surplus for 2001, which is due mainly to delays in starting Structural Fund programmes. May I remind you that a new regulation is also being applied to overestimates of payments by the administrative services in the Member States. The main point is that the level of implementation of Structural Fund payments is extremely low in all the Member States, without exception. Typical of the seriousness of the situation is the failure to implement EUR 10 million of the Structural Funds budget for 2001. My colleague, Commissioner Barnier, recently wrote to the Member States pointing out the consequences of these delays in implementing the Community budget and asking the Member States to step up the implementation of Structural Fund programmes.
Every year we ask the Member States to give us accurate forecasts of payment requirements and to use the payments entered on the budget for the year. The Commission does all it can to use outstanding appropriations for other requirements by transferring appropriations and, where it can, by proposing supplementary or amending budgets, as it has in the past. May I say that the Commission is delighted that Parliament approved the Council's second reading and say to Mr Podestà that we promise to deliver the evaluation report requested for the end of September."@en1
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