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"Madam President, to act on the decision by Parliament, last week, to refuse to grant budgetary discharge to the European Police College (CEPOL) for 2008, Parliament will now strengthen its position by freezing part of CEPOL’s budget. We shall endeavour to ensure that the reserve proposed by the Committee on Budgets reaches its target. In other words, we shall endeavour to ensure that a portion of the CEPOL budget is unfrozen depending on the answers that the agency provides to our requests in the demand for discharge. Our vote on Wednesday is therefore a further tool available to Parliament to oblige the College to provide proof of its reliability. I would like to point out at this juncture the 610% increase, in the period 2000-2010, in additional contributions to decentralised agencies. The contributions have thus increased from EUR 95 to 579 million, even though staff numbers of those agencies increased by around 271%. In 2000, the agencies employed 1 219 persons and today, they employ 4 794 individuals. While Europe is facing budgetary constraints absorbed at national level, the rationalisation of agencies in terms of powers, effectiveness and evaluation of their remits should be broached and Parliament must bring forward proposals. The question, today, is whether CEPOL, under current circumstances, should continue to exist. As politicians, we must define the European rules so that the budget allocated to the Community agencies is spent as effectively as possible."@en1
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