Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-04-22-Speech-3-313"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-04-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2007 discharge: EU general budget - Council (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20090422.53.3-313"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-04-22-Speech-3-3142
lpv:speaker	lp:Kyösti Virrankoski2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2007-06-20--2009-07-13)3 member; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2007-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Suomen Keskusta (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, first of all I wish to thank Mr Søndergaard for his excellent report. The report on the Council’s discharge is very long and thorough. It is also based on references to documents and the EU Treaty. The most problematic issue is transparency. The Council’s budget only partly concerns administration, as a large share of the funds go on operations, such as the Common Foreign and Security Policy. The Council is fairly unwilling to discuss the implementation of the budget with the Committee on Budgetary Control, and it is not keen to hand over the documents requested either. The European Parliament, together with the Council, is the authority responsible for the EU’s budget. Its task is also to oversee the use of funds and the budget’s general implementation. As far as I can see, it is this very lack of cooperation that has forced the Committee on Budgetary Control to propose that discharge should be postponed, and not so much the way funds have presumably been administered. The situation is an awkward one because good levels of cooperation between Parliament and the Council are the lifeblood of fruitful European policy. That is why my group will make its final decision regarding its position this evening."@en1
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