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"Mr President, I would just like to say to Mr Davies that it is him who ‘brings shame upon this House’.
Having said that, Mr President, I will vote in favour of your 2006 discharge. Unfortunately, in the motion for a resolution that accompanies it, there are questions and comments that either kick down doors that are already open (paragraph 58) or are incorrect, like the paragraphs concerning the voluntary pension fund.
Despite repeated efforts to provide the correct information by the chairman of the fund, people keep repeating falsehoods here about the actuarial deficit of the fund. Thanks to exemplary management, the fund is now able to guarantee the rights acquired until 2060. I think many of us will be dead by then!
As regards the update of the actuarial position (paragraph 71), this exists but will first be presented to the fund’s board of directors. Allow me to point out here that Parliament wasted EUR 36 000 having a so-called independent actuarial report done. Where is it? What are its conclusions? As far as I know, they are no different from those of the fund’s actuaries.
As regards paragraphs 72 and 73, a distinction needs to be made between the wishes of certain members of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the reality ensuing from the Members’ Statute. Claiming that neither current MEPs nor other affiliates can continue to contribute to the fund is simply incompatible with Article 27 of the Statute. Luckily it is not the wishes of a few that count here, even if they are the subject of decisions within the framework of resolutions, but the Statute that counts.
The Bureau’s working group on the Members’ Statute, of which I am a member, has done its job and has prepared the necessary measures, not in accordance with the wishes expressed in resolutions, but in accordance with Article 27 of the Members’ Statute published in the Official Journal on 7 October 2005."@en1
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