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Mr President, I would just like to make a few comments on the debate. Firstly, I should like to ask the penultimate speaker to note that our external auditor is not a company, but an independent and autonomous European institution, the European Court of Auditors, which audits accounting methods, the revenue and expenditure account and the statement of financial position annually, and concludes each year that the accounts are reliable. It then makes a number of comments, but without altering the overall result, and this makes it particularly clear that the accounts comply with the EU’s rules. With regard to implementation of the Budget, which in principle is now also connected with the accounts, I would like to point out once again that Parliament, like the Council, receives implementation figures for the EU Budget every week.
No other parliament in the Member States is so well informed, and of course one of the reasons I introduced this practice is that you need to be aware, in particular for the budget debate, of the state of implementation of the individual programmes so that a decision can be taken on the correct approach for the coming year. It is apparent that the implementation rate for expenditure under the Structural Funds has drastically accelerated this year. This is not only because we have been able to make the first advance payments to the new Member States, but in particular because of the continuing payments to the old Member States for the 2000-2006 programmes. It follows that further intensive debate on this issue with the Council is needed, as there is absolutely no point in putting too little money in the Budget and having to submit a supplementary Budget later on.
Mr Mulder specifically asked me when we would forward information on the pilot projects and preparatory actions to the Committee on Budgets. We hope to achieve this by 15 September, but we require information from many of the Directorates-General; we will have forwarded the information by 20 September at the latest.
I believe that this debate on the 2005 Budget was a very lively one. I would like to express my thanks for this on behalf of the Commission, and I believe that it is right for us to show such commitment in this debate, as there are undoubtedly many citizens who will be keen to see what the first Budget for the enlarged Union, and adopted by an enlarged Union, will look like."@en1
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