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"Mr President, Mr Caldeira, Commissioner, I wish to thank the European Court of Auditors for its admirable work for the benefit of the European taxpayer.
The EU accounts allow a 2% margin of error. I would say that it is salaries and other administrative costs in particular that need to be dealt with more accurately. We cannot allow any uncertainties when it comes to these.
There are, however, other cost groups where it would seem to be difficult, or even impossible, to achieve a 2% margin of error. According to the Court of Auditors, as much as 11% of the total sums spent on cohesion policy are sums that should not have been spent at all. The situation was also the same in the two previous years.
As the situation is such that the 2% threshold cannot be reached, I would like to ask whether the Commission or the Court of Auditors has thought about whether the 2% figure should be reviewed, so that year after year, we do not have to say that there is no way we will achieve the threshold this year and we will not do so next year either. In future, we will have to be more careful and function more cost-effectively than we do now, and the application procedure will have to be simplified."@en1
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