Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-26-Speech-3-169"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Fleet conversion in the light of the fishing agreement with Morocco2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030326.11.3-169"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-26-Speech-3-1702
lpv:speaker	lp:Paulo Casaca2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; CONT (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I wish first of all to congratulate the Committee on Fisheries and most particularly its chairman, our esteemed fellow Member Struan Stevensen, on the aptness of this debate, because this is a debate on a matter that was selected in our Committee on Budgetary Control – as the Commissioner, in fact, is well aware – as the most important issue, the issue of budget underutilisation, which in 2001 totalled more than EUR 15 billion. I must also say that before I came to this debate today I looked at the latest data on the utilisation of this budget line, with which the Commission regularly provides us, and I discovered that, apart from initial advance payments, no interim payments have yet been recorded. This is the state of affairs after the programme has been in action for more than a year! I also think that this piece of data, more than any other, is extremely significant with regard to the difficulties that the programme is facing in getting off the ground. And as our colleagues explained to us so brilliantly, especially Mrs Miguélez Díaz, the issue is not the need to implement the programme. This need does exist, but the problem is that it is not given due consideration in the blueprint for the regulation, which is too cumbersome and was not drawn up with the reality of the situation in mind. I therefore call on the Commissioner to take due account of what our fellow Members have said, which I think is extraordinarily appropriate. We would find it extremely regrettable if we were to face yet another blatant case of budgetary underutilisation, of the inability of the European institutions to respond to a real need. I therefore call on the Commissioner to review this problem as thoroughly as possible."@en1

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