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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission policy strategy for 2004/2004 budget guidelines2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030311.3.2-029"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-11-Speech-2-0302
lpv:speaker	lp:Anne E. Jensen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Venstre (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; BUDG (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, as has already been mentioned on quite a few occasions, the budgeting for 2004 is particularly exciting and particularly complicated because of enlargement and the continued reforms of EU budgeting. This is now the first year involving the activity-based budget, which will make it simpler for us all in future to interpret the political messages in the budget. I should like to begin by thanking Mr Mulder and Mrs Gill for their constructive and well set-out discussion documents for the work on the 2004 budget. The objective of this year’s budget has been to unify Europe, for enlargement means that there is a need for a range of new initiatives. In this context, I would especially mention the need for the Commission’s reforms to be implemented in such a way that the administration becomes genuinely efficient and is made sufficiently flexible for it to be possible, once and for all, to straighten out those problems that led to the Commission’s departure in 1999. If we do not get the problems solved now, matters will become so much the more difficult in an enlarged EU. It may be argued that enlargement will provide special opportunities for sorting out a number of problems. On the other hand, the difficulties in solving them will also be exacerbated. As Mrs Gill mentioned, that also applies, of course, in relation to our own institution, Parliament, which will no doubt have to be persuaded to tidy up its administration. It is important for us to set aside the necessary funds for the continued development of administration, training and social dialogue in the new Member States. That also applies to the budgets for the agencies in the spheres of training and the labour market. The last point I wish to make is that, upon enlargement, the EU will acquire new borders in the east. In the budget, aid to the former Soviet bloc countries is to be provided through the Tacis programmes which provide money for administrative development, training and the promotion of safety in connection with nuclear power stations. It is important for Tacis to continue to ensure that the projects are properly implemented. Nuclear safety, in particular, is a high political priority. I am delighted that, in this budget process, we can also welcome our future fellow MEPs from the new Member States. I think that, with their more detailed knowledge of our new neighbours, they will have some good ideas as to how, in the future, we can generally develop the Tacis programmes and also ensure that they are efficiently implemented. That is a strand of the debate and of the budget to which I am very much looking forward."@en1

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