Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-28-Speech-3-156"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Follow-up to 2001 discharges (Commission)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040128.12.3-156"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-28-Speech-3-1572
lpv:speaker	lp:Herbert Bösch2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; CONT (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when we see what the Commission is offering by way of lessons learned from the Eurostat affair, cynicism would seem to be the only appropriate response. On this issue, Commissioner, you are disavowing your own President. As early as September last year, and again on 18 November, President Prodi announced to this House that he would submit an action plan before the year’s end. In December, we were fobbed off until January, and now it is the end of January and we are still waiting for the proposals which have been announced and which are primarily intended to achieve a rapid improvement in the OLAF Regulation. Yet the Commission knows perfectly well that this is a race against time, and I can tell the Commissioner that time is precisely what we do not have. It is not possible to have two readings on 10 February. How do you see this working? Action is needed. This House has tabled appropriate proposals for your attention. I have the impression that it is the same old story in the Commission: Who is Commissioner, under which Director-General? I say this in all clarity. Yet the differences of opinion could be addressed relatively quickly. We need clear priorities for OLAF. It was your institution that said that OLAF had failed in the Eurostat affair. I say that in all clarity as well. We need priorities. We need a priority as regards protecting the subjects of the investigations, and I think we also need some amendments to the financial regulations. The responsibility of the authorising Directors-General is a case in point. It is right that the Directors-General should bear full responsibility for what happens in their directorate-general, but it is also true, especially in light of the Eurostat experience, that control is better than trust. You have not upheld this principle so far, and I think it is high time you did. I would remind you of that, Commissioner. Ultimately, that will be the key benchmark against which your work is measured at the end of this Prodi Commission’s term in office."@en1

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