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". – Mr President, may I begin by expressing my appreciation of the political signals that have been expressed in these different contributions. I agree with everybody who has said that this is an important and interesting area of activity. I also appreciate the realistic and constructive reaction to the need to keep to the budget level, which is necessary to move it forward.
I would make one additional remark, namely, that when we look at volume and this activity, the big show is the funding of non-State actors in ACP countries starting up now. In general, the average money available is between 5 and 10% of the country envelope, when we look at the whole group of ACP countries. This is for funding local NGOs, non-State actors and civil society in a broad sense. The idea is that the decision-making here will mainly be in the hands of our head of delegation there. That is truly decentralised cooperation. What we have here is a budget line managed out of Brussels which we
decentralised cooperation – a somewhat bureaucratic approach reflecting a time when we did not have the Cotonou agreement's new dimension of directly funding partners in civil society in those 78 countries. That is not to say that this budget line and this instrument are becoming irrelevant, because they cover the whole geography, not only the ACP countries. However, it underscores that the actual activity as such is something which has more to it than what we are discussing here.
So I see this budget line and the regulation and handling of it by Parliament as a way of clarifying the intentions. However, there is – like the iceberg – something bigger below the surface of this budget line, and it is important to keep that in mind.
Let me again thank you for a constructive reaction by Parliament."@en1
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