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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I must congratulate Mr Wynn on his work as both Chairman and rapporteur. His is an excellent report. I am delighted it has been favourably received by all the political groups. I should like to point out to Mr Wynn that even as disparate a group as the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats only intends to table a single amendment. This is an indication of the scale of our effort to achieve consensus and support the report.
Further, my group strongly supports adjustment of the current system of distinguishing between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure. This has now become a common position of Parliament. It should always be taken into account when specific types of expenditure can be guaranteed, notably in the case of agriculture. We endorse most of the proposals put forward by the Convention’s working groups seeking to ensure the principle of a dual budgetary authority: Parliament and Council.
The Group of the European People’s Party is of the opinion that the most effective way of ensuring this comes about is to formalise a balance between both branches of the budgetary authority. The budget would be adopted by a codecision procedure adjusted to this specific case. In the event of failure to reach agreement, the Council would have the final say on income and Parliament on expenditure.
As regards the financial perspectives, we believe it is imperative to endow them with greater flexibility. This would ensure an effective response to unexpected situations. Unduly rigid provisions have sometimes served to safeguard expenditure. On other occasions, however, such rigidity has hindered more effective allocation of resources.
We fully endorse the proposal by the Convention’s working group to include financial perspectives in the treaty, together with provisions on discipline and budgetary cooperation. In the interests of providing continuity regarding financial decisions, financial perspectives should cover the five-year term of Parliament and the Commission.
Finally, reform of the budgetary procedure must be based on simplification with a view to greater democratisation, legitimacy and transparency. We therefore fully endorse the proposal to do away with first reading in the Council, as this seems to be consistent with the objective of simplification.
Further, we reject the amendments leading beyond this debate, as we wish the document presented to the Convention to enjoy the fullest possible support of the House."@en1
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