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"Madam President, President Weber, Commissioner, this year we are once again being presented with the report by the Court of Auditors on the management of the Community budget and, this year once again, the European Parliament will pay the greatest possible attention to it, since it represents the most credible and reliable reflection of the state of the European public accounts. As the Commissioner responsible for Agriculture, Mrs Fischer Boel, said yesterday, we are genuinely going to subject the Union’s finances to a proper health check.
I do not intend to demand that the institutions take responsibilities that go beyond their particular competences. The Court of Auditors plays its role, often with little cooperation from the Member States and their national control institutions. I hope that Mr Weber will achieve in Warsaw what we have not been able to achieve over all these years.
Despite its defects, the European Commission does an extraordinary job, an extremely difficult job, given its lack of resources and the huge quantity of work. We do not therefore want this report to become an object of controversy, but rather a genuine instrument for improving public accounts.
The Council and the Member States also have their own responsibility, since, with the current institutional architecture, it is difficult to go any further with financial control of the budget and the execution of spending. Previous speakers have already said it: 80% is spent in the Member States but we do not even get the Finance Ministers in those Member States to declare the reliability of spending.
There still remains much to be done, therefore. Amongst other things, I intend to use ‘value for money’ as a basis for the cost-benefit analysis. The guiding principle of our report will be good financial management. We shall attach great importance to management, both shared management and direct management and decentralised management, and to the recovery of funds.
Finally, Madam President, we would like to see a new approach to the statement of assurance, but we shall talk about that over the coming months."@en1
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