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"Mr President, Mr Markov’s excellent report creates the impression that the Bank really is a great success. It has been successful at investing – in nuclear safety, for example – in the candidate countries and in the former Soviet republics. As the President said, the Bank has done a great job of improving nuclear safety in these countries. That is also something for which there is certainly a need. The fact is that all these nuclear power stations are veritable time bombs. Think of the Chernobyl disaster. Safety is so appalling, it is a disgrace that all these power stations were not closed down long ago. The Bank is responsible for the fund to be used for decommissioning the Ignalina power station in Lithuania. It is a nuclear power station I have visited quite a few times, and safety is so poor there that, following these visits, I am glad that I shall not be having any more children.
At the Copenhagen Summit, Lithuania promised to shut down Ignalina in 2009. There is really something for the Bank to do in this connection. A proposal has just been put forward for an investment package that would put some order into the method used for storing nuclear waste. The present situation is completely unacceptable. It is a huge mess and, in the longer term, extremely dangerous. I would therefore call for the package to be adopted as quickly as possible. In the future, we should take a brief look at how the Bank’s funds are monitored. I should like to call upon the Bank’s president to post something on its web site in this connection. With regard to the Bank’s accounts, it should be noted that these are not audited by any external firm of auditors. There is apparently no independent institution that scrutinises the Bank’s activities. The Court of Auditors has not prepared a report for years. The Bank has an evaluation unit that carries out some quite excellent evaluations, but what is missing is an external audit. I should therefore like to hear the Commission say what it does to monitor the funds, and I should also like to hear the Bank’s president say whether the Bank is more willing to open its doors to external audits."@en1
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