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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-31"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Budgetisation of the EDF2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040331.13.3-283"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-31-Speech-3-2842
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; België Spirit (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am pleased to endorse your congratulations and I thank the rapporteur for his report, because integration of the European Development Fund in the budget is a long-cherished wish. Not only because of the lack of transparency, both in the decision-making and in the execution. We have to concede that the procedures were particularly cumbersome and we have found that hopeless delays have therefore occurred, to such an extent in fact that a backlog of EUR 11 billion in allocated funds has arisen for which the payments have yet to be made. It is especially shocking for public opinion to discover that poverty in the developing countries is increasing all the time and that there is no efficient way of channelling the money and of supporting the necessary projects directly and efficiently. We consider this budgetisation highly desirable, although we are aware that it is not a magic wand. So far it has been a matter of voluntary contributions and we wonder whether we will secure the guarantees that the funds will be kept up. The Commissioner has certainly promised us that this will be the case, but provision still has to be made for the relevant mechanisms. Securing the level of the funds is one thing, but the guarantee that we will now really have a say in the assessment that the millennium goals will be taken seriously is another. For me it is not at all a question of reducing the autonomy of the ACP countries in this respect. Any intervention would after all have to take place on the basis of a jointly agreed Country Strategy Paper and a Community action plan in which we must take the participation of the ACP countries seriously. I understand the disquiet of our ACP partners in part, but it would nonetheless be a disappointment if budgetisation were to be to the benefit of transparency but there were to be no efficiency in the spending of the funds. I therefore hope that we shall succeed both in maintaining the level and increasing the efficiency and the transparency."@en1

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