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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should like today to thank all those who participated in our work, beginning with our general rapporteurs, Mr Pittella and Mr Dombrovskis, before moving on to Mr Böge and Mr Garriga and to the entire Committee on Budgets led by Mr Lewandowski. I also do not wish to leave out our administrators and assistants.
In actual fact, we have ended up today with a smaller budget than we were hoping for, but one that has been drawn up quite legally and that adheres to the current financial perspective, namely 1.09% of commitment appropriations. That is important and exceeds the results obtained last year. Furthermore, we can use the flexibility instrument to adhere to the promises made by the Council. We will remember, though, the problems we had in securing this option when we embark upon the forthcoming negotiations. What is more, all the margins have been adhered to. In short, we have attained a modest and reasonable budget, which will do no damage to the revenue provided by the Member States. The budget adheres to the priorities we set and, thanks to several policies adopted under codecision, it mainly enables us to anticipate the Lisbon Strategy and to hold on to the bulk of external aid, the aid that we give to the poorest countries and that we value highly.
I should like, however, to return to a number of points close to our hearts, which relate to the implementation of the budget. Today, the budget that we are presenting has a political dimension to it. It is up to the Commission, however, to make sure that this political dimension is maintained when the budget is implemented. Clearly, we must avoid having any surpluses next year. In fact, if the budget headings continue not to be implemented, then the European Parliament’s political commitment, as budgetary authority, is likely to dwindle.
Commissioner, we no longer want to see returns of EUR 2 billion on whichever Fund it may be. Everything must be implemented; we have given you the resources for this. If you encounter difficulties, let us know in due time.
Finally, I should like to say to the Council that, admittedly, we now have a proper budget for 2006, agreed upon in the wake of a whole host of problems. We are in this situation because the promises made by the Council are not often backed up with funds and because you had made a commitment, more than two years ago, to implement an information system on security policy. We are one of the two branches of budgetary authority, and we consider it disgraceful that the European institutions, and the Council in particular, seem to be unaware of this fact. The Committee on Budgets approved of the Council’s wisdom in seeking to make strong political decisions for this 2006 budget. We will harbour the same concerns where the forthcoming financial perspective is concerned. Today, we have the only legal proposal: the vote on 8 June, widely adopted by our Parliament.
Since then, we have been awaiting a genuine proposal from the Council. When this reaches us, we will be ready – ready to work and to negotiate, in view of our shared years of experience. The Committee on Budgets will work for a budget benefiting Europeans. It will adopt a similar approach in the negotiations on the financial perspective, and Parliament will support it with a view to providing the European Union with a budgetary framework that will enable it to fund the activities in which it is required to engage with a view to developing quality jobs and protecting the environment. We want this to be done in the context of real solidarity not only among the nations of Europe, but also with the poorest people.
As regards the 2006 budget, Parliament rejects the intergovernmental approach in relation to the financial perspective. Our Parliament wants to represent Europeans. It wants us to be united in diversity."@en1
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