Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-23-Speech-2-201"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, allow me to begin by telling you in public what I have already taken the opportunity to tell you in private, namely that I profoundly admire the courageous and direct manner in which you are facing up to your responsibilities in the Eurostat case.
Allow me also, however, to say to you just as directly that I would describe the way in which the Commission is hiding the internal audit report from Parliament, and especially from the Committee on Budgetary Control, as a deeply irresponsible act. I must alert you to the consequences of that act as of now. We required that report as part of the discharge procedure, as the essential condition on which discharge was to be granted. The Commission itself, as a body, must consider where the responsibility lies here.
I would also like to let you know, Commissioner, that I fully agree with what Mr Heaton-Harris has already said about the cuts in the amounts for both OLAF and Eurostat. I also believe that it is essential that the principle of political responsibility should be implemented, in practical terms. I believe that Commissioners should assume their responsibilities and be given the means to do so. I believe, in particular, that each Commissioner should have at his or her disposal an inspection, an audit, or whatever else they need in order to address the questions asked of them."@en1
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