Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-04-Speech-4-219"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:ACP bananas2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030904.7.4-219"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-04-Speech-4-2202
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, ladies and gentlemen, bananas are extremely important products for the economy and for the land use of several European regions, particularly in the Atlantic archipelagos of Macronesia, but are also crucial to some less developed countries towards which we have binding legal and political obligations. I therefore congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Fernández Martín, and offer my support for his conclusions and ideas on the matter now under our consideration. I also offer my support to my friend and colleague, Mr Medina Ortega, who is also a fellow countryman of the rapporteur. In particular, I share his concern at the scantiness of the financial means available under this regulation. I wish, however, to take this opportunity to raise a few basic points about the transparency and clarity of procedures in the way current legislation is implemented. It is unacceptable that the funds we are looking at should be allocated by Commission decisions that are not made public and which are based on an unnecessarily complex system of calculation, on the basis of somewhat erroneously defined concepts, using data of dubious rigour and comparability that are spread across two regulations and several articles and annexes. The aims of Community legislation must be clear, as simple as possible to enact and transparently implemented. As the Ivory Coast Banana and Pineapple Producers’ Association has rightly stated, however, this regulation does not fulfil these criteria. I therefore hope that the Commission will inform Parliament of the decisions it has taken on funding organisations in the beneficiary countries, as well as the calculations informing these and the data it has used and even the legal basis and what it has done with the unused appropriations from budget line B7-8710. A simple and transparent legal framework is a crucial instrument, in this and in other fields, for developing a positive and lasting relationship between the European institutions and their partners."@en1

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