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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to make a few comments on this matter from the standpoint of the Committee on Budgets.
Since the beginning of the crisis in the Balkans, we – especially the Budget Committee – have insisted that all the substantial EU funds invested in reconstruction
be used in such a way that our principles of good governance are respected. This means
that we have demanded assurances in terms of efficient administration, decentralisation, swift payments, avoidance of bottlenecks and scrutiny of funds.
When the European Agency for Reconstruction was created in early 2000, it was actually in response to a request from Parliament. Furthermore, we did away with the original, unwieldy committee procedure. We obtained a much simpler model that we believe has been extremely important and thanks to which
decisions on practical projects can generally be taken at local level.
I must also say that cooperation between the Thessaloniki office and the operations offices in Pristina, Belgrade, etc., has been more effective than many of us had believed at the outset. We would perhaps still like to have a little more information from the Commission regarding how many people are left in Brussels and how many are working in Thessaloniki and in the other localities. Have we really managed to avoid duplication of effort, which was one of our aims?
In any case, what we can say is that an extremely high percentage of the available funds have been allocated and paid out. The Court of Auditors also commented on the high levels of efficiency, which is very good. At the same time, guidelines are, of course, needed for the future, particularly since we now realise that we have been so efficient that we might have too little money left at the end of this seven-year term of the CARDS programme.
Even now, the Commission has been forced to propose a radical reduction in aid to Kosovo, for example, and this present us with a big challenge. Can we delegate to the local and national authorities? How shall we proceed in the future? Strategic reflection is now needed for the future, if we are to continue to have the same levels of efficiency. That is the message from the Committee on Budgets."@en1
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