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"Mr President, representatives of the Council, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, we wish to thank the rapporteurs, Mr Stenmarck and Mr Färm, for the work they have done to date and we also believe that we should thank Mr Podestà, the rapporteur for 2002, for the work he has done, because, thanks to their collaboration and the way they have linked one budgetary year with another, this Parliament has managed to respond correctly to a specific need which existed following the disastrous floods in August.
What we do need now is for the Council to fulfil its promise to offer Parliament a negotiation procedure in which Parliament can also help to define what the legal basis must be and the ways in which this fund will be financed in the coming years.
But, above all, we are taking part in this debate to thank the Commission for the initiative it has taken with this budgetary debate, which completely changes the structure we had in other years.
Our parliamentary group considers it essential – it has believed this for some years – to make the legislative and budgetary procedures more appropriate. This is not just a whim of this group but rather, since we are part of the budgetary authority, the European Parliament must be able to express its opinion on the resources necessary for the Commission to be able to move its annual political strategy forward.
The stock-taking for this year shows us that the concerns of the Commission are very clear and very specific and that the Commission, in particular, is very concerned that the new posts should be dedicated to the implementation of the Community
in the candidate countries.
Just as the European Parliament is going to be sensitive to the concerns of the Commission, we want the Commission to be sensitive to the point of view of this Parliament in relation to the reform of the Commission. For us this is a political need, especially since we believed the promises of reform made by Mr Prodi and his Commissioners and, therefore, we have great hopes for this reform. The Commission will largely be judged on its ability to recognise the need for the reform, to draw up the reform and, above all, to carry it out.
In order to demonstrate that the European Parliament is inflexible on this point, we are presenting some amendments which put certain appropriations in reserve. We would be delighted and very happy, like every year, to be able to withdraw them on second reading, provided that the Commission has satisfied Parliament’s demands.
Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, after the Treaty of Nice the direction the institutions of the European Union are going to take is clear and in this respect you must take very good account of the fact that, from a budgetary point of view, this Parliament is only really a Parliament if it is given the powers to obtain complete information, complete transparency and full participation in all the Union’s financial decisions. Until this is fully achieved – and it has not so far been achieved – we are going to have an unstable and imperfect institutional model with many tensions and we are going to spend a large part of the budgetary procedure arguing about trivial procedural issues instead of the fundamental issues.
My group is therefore presenting amendments this year which are aimed exclusively at improving the budgetary mechanism and the institutional balance which we believe to be essential."@en1
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