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"Mr President, I want first to congratulate both rapporteurs on the great and pioneering work they have done and are continuing to do.
The draft budget as it relates to the areas for which the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs is responsible is for the most part acceptable. We are therefore proposing only a small number of changes to our opinion for submission to the Committee on Budgets. When it comes to the provision of information on the common currency, this ought as far as possible to be focused on those countries that are members of the EU but that have still not introduced the euro. The provision of information to the candidate countries should be financed via budget lines dedicated to enlargement.
In the case of the budget line which relates to the EU’s industrial competitiveness and for which the Commission has proposed a twelve per cent increase in the appropriations, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs proposes a change to the justification with a view to producing an assessment of the results generated by this budget line during the almost ten years of its existence. Since I personally have grave doubts as to whether measures of this type really give value for money, I believe that an assessment is something to be welcomed.
Regarding programmes for small and medium-sized enterprises, I note that the Commission’s draft budget has included the change proposed last year by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs concerning access to venture capital. No change is required this year, then.
I welcome the fact that the Council, unlike in previous years, has not proposed any cut-back in the appropriations for the development of the EU’s internal market. In this context, I want also to draw attention to the importance of having adequate resources for areas relating to the internal market, especially the implementation of the action plan for financial services.
Finally, I want to emphasise that the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs believes that the amount introduced into Parliament’s own budget for studies and the provision of advice may be insufficient, given the expressed objective of using more external expertise in connection with complicated legislative matters."@en1
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