Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-20-Speech-2-430"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2002 discharges (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040420.18.2-430"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-20-Speech-2-4312
lpv:speaker	lp:Rijk van Dam2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-20--2004-04-21)3 member; CONT (2003-01-29--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 unknown; ChristenUnie - Staatkundig Gereformeerde Parti (2002-03-18--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-09-18--2004-04-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, last year this Parliament had only just granted the Commission discharge for 2001 when the Eurostat affair came to light. That confirmed the position taken up by my group that postponement of the discharge was necessary. It became apparent today that the Commission is still refusing to take responsibility for the fraud at Eurostat. That is typical of the arrogance and contemptuous attitude of the Commission toward Parliament and the citizens, whose tax revenues this is ultimately about. A second example of bad policy concerns the poor organisation of the system for reclaiming sums wrongfully paid out. It is really shocking that the Commission is still paying out money to Member States as cool as you like, when they know that in 15% of the cases the control and management systems are not up to scratch. When is the Commission going to stop doing this and suspend part of the payment? When will the Commission have a complete and reliable debtors’ register in the accounts? Up to now it has been wasting its time. I am asking the Commission to promise that, before 1 May, in other words within 14 days, they will present Parliament with an assessment of the support for problem areas, regardless of whether all the Member States have fulfilled their duty to provide information. Then it will immediately become clear which Member States require special attention and we can get the members of our national parliaments to put pressure on their governments. There is a very great deal wrong in these problem areas. The validity of the distribution is open to dispute and the list of indicators in fact give the Member States . Farmers working in similar circumstances do not receive equal subsidies and so on and so forth. There is plenty for you and your successors to do to put this right. Finally, I am asking for a clear response from the Commissioner to the suggestion to create a separate Directorate-General for accounting and combating fraud with effect from 2005, to bring to an end once and for all the merging of responsibilities in the present Directorate-General for the Budget."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"carte blanche"1

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