Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-24-Speech-2-212"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, unfortunately, you have not had the opportunity yet – and I am pleased to give you this opportunity now – to reply to my earlier questions about the 500 new positions, the lack of manpower to monitor compliance with environmental legislation and also to the question of whether candidate countries should get the bureaucratic red-tape underway as early as 2003 to apply for Structural Funds so as to guarantee the highest possible level of implementation in 2004.
My other question in this area, and also my concern, relates to small projects, to which Mrs Smet has already referred. Everyone will agree that tax money must be spent wisely. It is true that the evaluation of small projects requires a relatively great deal of manpower for relatively small amounts of money. However, these projects are often important, for example, for society in the developing countries. This is why I am hoping for a proposal from the Commission for such things as the transfer of more operational powers to the external offices, less bureaucracy, less stringent requirements and, for example, for parliamentary delegations to have political control over the choice of those projects. Is this a proposal that you will be looking to develop further?"@en1
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