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dcterms:Date	"2009-11-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20091126.3.4-028"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-11-26-Speech-4-0292
lpv:speaker	lp:Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; CONT (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Democraten 66 (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"I should like to thank the Court of Auditors for its crystal-clear Annual Report, and I wish to express my particular thanks to Commissioner Kallas for the effort he has put in over recent years. In my opinion, he can rightly claim to have made a great deal of progress during that time. I should like to highlight three aspects of this Annual Report. The first is the fact that the biggest problems still lie with the Member States. Many of my fellow Members have already given the example of regional policy, which I can only underline. Therefore, I should like to put the following question to the Commission with regard to the national declarations that exist in some Member States: could you perhaps come forward with a specific proposal to make these compulsory for all the Member States of the European Union? The second aspect I wish to emphasise is the volume and complexity of the European rules: another issue that has already been raised by many fellow Members. Can we perhaps start a fundamental debate on the way we wish to spend our funds and the rules underpinning this? In my view, at present, this is based too much on suspicion and too little on trust and, when all is said and done, that just breeds more irregularities. The final aspect is agriculture. It is excellent, of course, that the whole agricultural sector has received a green light for the first time, but we should not pat ourselves too hard on the back. Rural development is where the major problem lies, and let that now be the very policy area within agriculture where we see major expansion in coming years. Also, the important thing is not only lawfulness but also efficiency as, with regard to the agricultural funds, we are still greatly underperforming in the achievement of our environmental and nature objectives."@en1
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