Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-03-Speech-3-137"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-12-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Assessment of OLAF2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031203.10.3-137"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-12-03-Speech-3-1382
lpv:speaker	lp:Mogens Camre2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Dansk Folkeparti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; UEN (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, first of all, I should like to thank Mr Bösch for a splendid, extremely thorough report, the conclusions of which we can support, on the whole. It could of course be said that the advisability of Parliament giving such detailed rules for the reform of OLAF is doubtful, but, as the Commission has been unable to create a functioning monitoring body, Parliament must of course attend to it. It is we who must be answerable to citizens in the last instance for the way in which their money is managed. In the past, we had UCLAF, but that did not function perfectly. Then OLAF came along, and obviously we are now seeing that that has not improved matters as desired. I agree with the criticism, in itself, that several of my fellow Members have made regarding the causes of OLAF’s inability to function. In the late seventies, there was a joke in my country stemming from the fact that there was a main post office that did not function properly. We were discussing what to do if a nuclear power station were built. There was a problem with the waste, and the joke was that the solution was to package the waste up and send it to the main post office, where it would go round and round in an eternal cycle until the radiation had diminished. The Commission has actually used OLAF in a similar way. Things have gone on far too long, have lain unattended for too long, and it is incomprehensible to us, especially in relation to the Eurostat case, that OLAF’s management was able to say to the Committee on Budgetary Control, in deadly earnest, that cases have been kept secret from the Commission so as not to burden the Commission with the unpleasant knowledge of what has happened. This gives a very amateurish impression. In fact, it could of course be life-threatening to the Commission not to be informed. We do not really believe that it would be very helpful to put new committees above the existing Supervisory Committee, nor do we have much faith in the idea of a European Public Prosecutor. Indeed, what is important is to bring about a sea change in our approach towards dealing with the EU’s economy as a whole."@en1

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