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"Mr President, I would like to join in with the general chorus of concern and surprise at the situation we are facing today on the eve of voting for the discharge for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2004, which, in reality, we had been preparing and which the Committee on Budgetary Control had prepared extremely carefully and on the basis of all the necessary information. On the very eve of this debate we have been faced with some information that is appearing in the press ... I can tell you that things sometimes appear in the press in Spain that are not really 100% true or which have been manipulated; therefore, since the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Legal Service — and quite rightly at this point, I believe — has advised us not to vote, since it was not our report, but rather plenary’s – since once we have voted for Mr Ferber’s report it becomes plenary’s report – I would ask the Members and Mr Ferber in particular — though I cannot see him in the Chamber at the moment — not to make us vote to discharge, when it does not really mean a discharge. I would ask Mr Ferber to avoid a vote which may be ambiguous, wrongly interpreted and manipulated once again by the press. Instead, I would ask you, before the vote, to consider the possibility of the referral of your report back to the Committee on Budgetary Control, which has not been able to deal with it today, precisely because it was plenary that could decide on it; but to ask plenary to return it to us before recording a negative vote, which means something different: voting no to something without having clarified why we are voting no. I would prefer it, therefore, Mr President, if possible, if Parliament’s services and my fellow Members could guarantee that possibility; that before voting no in a manner that could be interpreted as a badly prepared ‘no’, since we only received this information yesterday, we could prevent that by returning this report to the Committee on Budgetary Control, which would do its work again."@en1

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