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"Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to start by congratulating the rapporteurs, Mr Sacrédeus, Mrs Rühle and specifically Mrs Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, on whose report I wish to speak. We must always remember that the aim of the programme in question is to support women’s organisations whose primary task is to promote, monitor and publicise Community actions designed for women, with the aim of achieving gender equality.
The amendments tabled in the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities changed the nature of the report and, what is worse, diverted it from the overall objective. Consequently, the members of that committee from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, including the rapporteur, voted against them. I must, therefore, congratulate Mrs Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou on the coherence and persistence of the work she has carried out and which can be seen in the amendments tabled for the vote in this plenary session.
In actual fact, what is at stake are crucial issues; firstly, the reference to the European Women’s Lobby in the text that is annexed and not in the legislative part; secondly, the intention to award grants for organisations’ operational needs and not for specific actions; thirdly, co-financing and degressivity rates must be identical both for the European Women’s Lobby and for other organisations operating at European level. We would certainly not deny the fundamental role of the European Women’s Lobby, but the work of other organisations that share these aims and which undertake their own activities that do not receive financial support also needs to be recognised. Consequently, in order to ensure equal opportunities for all of these organisations, their names must be given only in the annex. Furthermore, this programme must award operational grants to organisations active at European level in the field of equality between women and men. The programme is not intended to subsidise specific actions that could receive funding under other programmes. This point must be crystal clear!
Lastly, in contrast to the Commission proposals, standard criteria must be adopted for the various organisations as regards co-financing and degressivity."@en1
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