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Mr President, I should like to make just a few points. With regard to Mrs Korhola's comments, it is true that many years ago the World Bank and UN stated that up to 25% of development assistance was wasted from the point of view of the recipient countries because of tying to the donor countries. This figure is not acceptable to the Commission because we have open competition between the 15 Member States, and adding a sixteenth does not really change the name of the game in terms of ensuring competitiveness when we are tendering. Therefore, the dynamics of this mainly revolves around a classical case of a single bilateral donor country tying or not tying. For the Commission, the dynamics of this, economically speaking, are not fantastic.
I would add that as a result of access to ACP countries, these countries have the right to bid on anything we tender relating to them. About 25% of all tenders are now being won by ACP bidders. This is good and is part of what Mr Fernández Martín talked about as being important to attain.
Finally, it is true that food aid and the transport of food aid has – at the insistence of the US and via the decision in the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD – been excluded from what should be covered by untying of aid. This is very sad and this is why we specifically refer to that problem as one of the elements in the broader topic of the untying of aid."@en1
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