Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-07-05-Speech-2-218"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Structural Funds2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050705.26.2-218"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-07-05-Speech-2-2192
lpv:speaker	lp:Grażyna Staniszewska2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CULT (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Unia Wolnosci/Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl (2005-06-17--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to take this opportunity to call most emphatically for a degree of consistency. When we voted on the Böge report a few weeks ago, we made it a rule that we would not extend the n+2 rule to the Cohesion Fund. We made it a rule that enterprises that had benefited from the Structural Funds would have to remain in the same place for five years. We are now planning to change that. A couple of weeks ago we had one opinion, and now we intend to change our minds. I would appeal for a degree of consistency. In the Böge report we decided that if the n+2 rule were extended to the Cohesion Fund, it would become impossible in many instances, especially in the case of the new Member States, to benefit from this Fund when implementing large projects. Similarly, it would appear that while we are giving money to businesses with one hand, we are taking it away with the other, since we are now introducing the rule that VAT will not be an eligible expense, after so many poor countries and regions have joined the European Union. Polish children say that, ‘who gives and takes away winds up in hell’, and I would appeal for us not to give with one hand and take away with the other. As far as VAT is concerned, and presuming that the amendments are not adopted tomorrow, I would call on the Commissioner and the Council to give serious though to a zero rate for VAT on investments made under European funds. A zero rate of VAT would make it possible for those who do not want EU funds to return to the budgets of the individual countries to find common ground with those who cannot afford to double their contributions as a result of the changes currently being proposed. I would urge the House to take these concerns seriously, and they are indeed serious concerns, particularly in the case of the new Member States. I would urge Members to ensure that enlargement does not become an illusion."@en1

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