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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-24"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020924.4.2-052"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-24-Speech-2-0532
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Mulder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3,3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3,3 vice-chair; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-02-21--2002-12-17)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Thank you, Mr President. I should also like to congratulate Mr Casaca on behalf of my group. I share his relentless ambition to improve agricultural controls. If this policy is already controversial, and European agricultural policy is controversial, then we must in any event ensure that the money is well spent. What is the essence of the Commission's proposal? It aims to reduce the number of controls, but to improve them at the same time. We hope that the latter is the case, but everything is yet to be proven, of course. We will be closely monitoring this process, something that I support. The proof will be in the pudding. You will be given the benefit of the doubt, but I hope that your premises are indeed genuine. Something which Parliament has always asked for are margins of error for the individual sectors of the budget, and this also applies to the agricultural budget. How great is the margin of error in the dairy sector, for example? How much is it in the cereal sector, or the tobacco sector? The big question is whether you are able to supply these figures by means of this other system, because based on the Commission's new system of accounting, we expect that these figures will be available in due course. The Court of Auditors has said that it will not be able to do this. We would therefore ask the Commission to indicate, more or less on an annual basis, what the estimated margin of error and the estimated improvement will be. This will enable us to assess improvements in the Commission’s control procedures. One subject that has not been touched upon, not even in the Commission proposal, is that we have noticed an increasing emphasis on rural policy in Commissioner Fischler's proposals. Funding for rural policy is subject to good agricultural practices, which is excellent, and we must incorporate the environment and similar issues in this. However, what exactly are good agricultural practices? My guess is that good agricultural practices in Sweden may on the whole be different from good agricultural practices in the Netherlands, or Portugal, or Greece, or wherever. This is the essence. What is considered normal in one country is still not normal in another country. My final comment concerns Amendment No 10 pertaining to the publication of all data on the various destinations of agricultural funds. I agree with this in principle, but as far as I know, this does not apply to any of the other subsections of the budget. This is why we will be keeping our powder dry for the time being and will not be voting for this amendment at this stage."@en1

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