Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-18-Speech-2-054"

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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	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031118.2.2-054"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-18-Speech-2-0552
lpv:speaker	lp:Juan José Bayona de Perogordo2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Popular (2002-04-24--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-05-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-05-08--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (2002-04-24--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (2002-05-13--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-04-25--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to thank Mr Prodi for coming to the House today and also for coming before the Committee on Budgetary Control. I shall endeavour to be brief. Mr Prodi, concerning what you have grandiloquently termed the Eurostat Action Plan, I suggest this is merely chapter three of a work in which chapters one and two are lacking. The missing chapter one should have been entitled ‘facts’ and the missing chapter two ‘responsibilities’. This chapter on measures to be adopted would be chapter three. As I have already stated at the Committee on Budgetary Control, I believe these measures are absurd, curious and outdated. They are absurd because the person or body to be controlled is actually charged with informing the controller of possible infringements. They are curious because coordination committees are not what is needed to follow up allegations and seek the truth. Instead, compliance and immediate investigation of the truth are called for. Alternatively, the information should be placed before the judicial authorities. The measures are outdated because auditors have repeatedly stated the need to break away from the guidelines of Directors-General who have control over them. Further, this plan does not concern Eurostat alone. It applies generally to the functioning of the Commission. Mr President, I believe the sequence is wrong. It should be reversed. After all, information does not generate responsibility. Rather, responsibility demands information to be able to cope with commitments. With regard to OLAF, President Prodi, I suggest the introduction of some kind of ruling on admissibility. This would allow rejection of long, costly and useless proceedings detrimental to specific institutions or bodies. A number of recent cases of this kind spring to mind. None of them resulted in significant achievements."@en1

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