Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-18-Speech-2-015"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Legislative and work programme for 2004 – Eurostat2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031118.2.2-015"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-18-Speech-2-0162
lpv:speaker	lp:Jens-Peter Bonde2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; EDD (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2003-09-29--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, there is a difference between guilt and responsibility. Who bears political responsibility for the Eurostat scandal? The scandal is not that someone has had their fingers in the till. The most serious scandal is that we have an accounting system that still makes embezzlement possible. Forty-seven auditors and other experts have worked with Eurostat since June 2003. They have asked for 78 contracts but only received 60. Of those 60, 28.5% were implemented in contravention of EU rules governing invitations for tenders. Where are those 18 missing contracts? Who is responsible for their not being there? Who will obtain them? There must of course be copies of the contracts in all the firms. Why have they not been obtained straight away, and where are the banks’ copies for the secret accounts? Who is responsible for the fact that the 47 auditors do not have them? Who is taking responsibility for ensuring that all the documents in proof now come to light? Mr Prodi, you have just held a meeting with the Committee on Budgetary Control in my group’s offices, where you promised openness and zero tolerance for fraud, as you also did when you came to office in 1999. Up until now, however, zero tolerance has been shown first and foremost to those who have revealed fraud and warned against the accounting system that permits it. The Commission has shown efficiency in its dealings with Paul van Buitenen, Marta Andreasen and Dorte Smidt-Brown. They were quickly and resolutely frozen out. Who has responsibility for restoring their civil rights? When will you say to Mr Solbes: ‘Pedro, you are not perhaps the guilty party, but Eurostat is your responsibility. Step down. I accept Mr Blak’s proposal and assume responsibility myself for providing a full explanation of the Eurostat scandal’."@en1

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