Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-11-Speech-2-054"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Reform of the budgetary procedure2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030311.4.2-054"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-11-Speech-2-0552
lpv:speaker	lp:Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"The rapporteur, the chairman of our committee and my esteemed fellow-Member from the British Labour Party have really given all groups ample opportunity to contribute their ideas and to attempt to reach a compromise. I give him my most sincere thanks for that. Nevertheless, my group is not completely satisfied with the end result. We have chosen not to table any amendments, because it would result in a kind of hotchpotch, but instead to table an alternative resolution. We have opted to do that precisely because absolute clarity is necessary when it comes to establishing the form the budgetary procedure of the future should take. For example, we also wanted to make it very clear right from the outset how competences should be divided up. The Council and Parliament should negotiate with each other to reach common agreement both on the structure and the ceiling of the financial resources for the EU budget and on the annual or multi-annual expenditure. Should the negotiations fail, the Council would simply have the last word on revenue and Parliament on expenditure. In our resolution, we also keep repeating the necessity of having codecision powers in all legislation. It is all very well to argue for an end to the distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure, but if we do not also have the power or codecision over the legislation, we are often left empty-handed. Then a situation can arise in which we do have codecision over agricultural expenditure but in which we are obliged to simply hand out money to farmers because they have a right to it under European law. In addition, the judgment of the Court of Justice on the legal basis has taught us that we cannot take any budgetary decisions in our own right without a legal basis. I should like to conclude that budgetary codecision is of no benefit to us as a Parliament if we do not have legislative codecision. The two matters must go hand in hand."@en1

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