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"Our sub-group sets great store by consumer protection and we will support the rapporteur’s compromise, but we will abstain on the final resolution because of budgetary considerations.
Programming has indeed been planned until 2007 but we all know that the financial perspectives will be revised in 2006. There is, therefore, no guarantee of continuity. I return to the wisdom of the Committee on Budgets (COBU), which states that ‘the amount scheduled for the year 2007 is subject to approval by the Budgetary Authority for the Financial Perspective beyond 2006.’
I am equally concerned about the operational costs. EUR 32 million are earmarked for human resources, whilst the operational envelope amounts to EUR 72 million. That is a terrible cost-benefit ratio.
Let us not forget that consumer organisations, which exist in all Member States, are an effective opposition force. What is the use of implementing European financing at such a high cost price?
As regards the cofinancing of projects, I am in favour of keeping a maximum ceiling of 70% and I am against 75%.
As regards financial support for European consumer organisations, a 50% threshold is much too high. We need to avoid these organisations and the Commission becoming dependent on one another, thereby preventing these organisations from operating independently and from acting without constraint.
I abstained on the final resolution for all of these reasons."@en1
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