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Madam President, I would like to thank Mrs Schierhuber for the quality of her report, as well as for the amendments tabled. This draft regulation is of great importance. It is included in the package of proposals made by the Commission in the scope of the financial perspectives and defines the rules for financing the common agricultural policy. The purpose of this regulation is to clarify and simplify these financing rules, to improve our management and control system and to adapt and reinforce our rules on budget discipline, taking into account the reform of the CAP decided in 2003.
The bringing together of the rules relating to the two new funds in one single regulation must be considered as a major simplification concerning the rural development policy where we stop using different financial rules for the same measures depending on the region where they apply. The single management and control system chosen for both funds takes advantage of the good experience we have acquired in the field of the EAGGF Guarantee Section. However, this system needed some reinforcement in order to constitute a modern management and control system. A major new element in it is the declaration of assurance given by the head of the paying agencies.
I would also like to draw your attention to the new system for the follow
up of irregularities and recoveries. This system should ensure that major amounts will not be outstanding indefinitely. Both these elements are in line with Parliament’s 2003 discharge recommendations.
This regulation on the financing of the CAP would not be complete without the relevant rules on budget discipline. These rules are, however, also reinforced where needed and adapted to the new rules we decided upon in the reform adopted back in 2003.
My position on the amendments is as follows. Although I can agree with the purpose of Amendment 1, I do not consider it legally necessary or even good legal practice to follow it. The exception of expenditure stated in Article 13 will apply. It is not necessary to state this again in Article 5. I can accept Amendment 2 and Amendment 7 with, however, some small drafting changes. Amendments 3, 4 and 5 are all reducing the 36
month period used in clearance of accounts to determine the expenses which can be the subject of a clearance decision. I have to inform you that this proposal was based on a recommendation from the Court of Auditors, as well as from Parliament. However, if you adopt these amendments, taking into account the fact that all Member States also ask for this time limit to be reduced to 24 months, I will accept them.
I regret I cannot accept Amendment 6. The proposal for a flat
rate approach on recoveries in the event of irregularities is a fundamental part of the Commission’s proposal. We cannot justify to the European taxpayers that more than EUR 2 billion is outstanding and for which we cannot put into place a manageable follow
up system. The past has proven that the existing system which needs a case
by
case, yearly examination of the more than 10 000 outstanding recovery files is impossible. The flat
rate approach shares out the financial responsibility equally between Member States and Commission, once the normal period for the recovery has elapsed.
For cases in which recovery action is taken in courts, we now propose to allow for a normal period of eight years. Your proposal would be to wait for the final judicial decision. This would take away all the benefits that are actually being sought. Furthermore, it makes the whole system superfluous as once a final judicial decision is taken, there is no reason to apply the provisional flat
rate solution of sharing the financial burden between Member States and the Community budget."@en1
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