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Mr President, I entirely support both Mr Jorgo Chatzimarkakis’s report and the draft regulation itself. This is an important step in the right direction; we are introducing greater transparency in accountability relating to European Union expenditure. The most valuable provision of all is the one that makes it possible to publish, or rather makes it a duty to publish, information on who made use of these funds and in what context, as part of the Common Agricultural Policy.
Public opinion has been demanding this information for some time, and so has the press, so it is a very good thing that this particular principle has been introduced. Anyone who has benefitted from public aid should not be ashamed of information to the effect that he has received such aid; and farmers in particular have no reason to be ashamed of it, because after all the aid is clearly due to them and is for the good of the whole of society.
The regulation is aimed at exerting stronger control over EU expenditure, and a very good thing too. I would like to take this opportunity to say two sentences about a problem that cropped up when the Committee on Budgetary Control visited Poland, at the beginning of October. The problem relates to the detection of irregularities by national control agencies. This is a solution that would enable us to avoid the consequences of restrictions on expenditure in a situation where irregularities are detected by a national control agency. It is about these agencies cooperating properly with the European Court of Auditors, and them being motivated to identify such irregularities without consequences for their own country."@en1
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