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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are considering a regulation which expires at the end of the year. The role of this report is to provide a successor. We want to continue with the existing and worthwhile provisions in 2004-06, and in order for the legal basis to allow a seamless transition we want to try to succeed on the first reading, together with the Council and the Commission. We seem to have been successful so far, in that all the amendments proposed today are, on the whole, very worthy of support. We have sought to put the emphasis on the initiatives and stakeholders in the decentralised cooperation in the developing countries themselves rather than those in the European Union. The wording of Amendment No 10 is now the result of a compromise proposed by Mr Sauquillo Pérez del Arco and myself, and now states, among other things, that independent establishments are also included. We have adopted the wording used in Recital 11 on the status of churches and ideological groups in the Annex to the Treaty of Amsterdam to ensure that the ministers could accept it without any difficulties. The Commissioner has already said that Amendment No 5 is the real sticking point. Everything else has also been agreed in the Committee on Development and Cooperation. Amendment No 5 provides for an increase from EUR 18 million to EUR 36 million. I have to say that while obviously I would like to see such an increase, given the current situation I do not think this report and the new regulation are the appropriate place for demanding one. It would undoubtedly mean – as the Council has made very clear – that no solution would be agreed at first reading. For that reason, I would prefer to stick with the EUR 18 million, as per the proposal, and then set a higher figure in the new negotiations for 2007 onwards."@en1

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