Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-11-11-Speech-4-020"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-11-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report - 2009 (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20101111.3.4-020"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Luigi de Magistris2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2009-07-20--2011-07-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2011-07-18)3 chair; CONT (2009-07-20--2011-07-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2011-07-18)3 unknown; Italia dei Valori - Lista Di Pietro (2009-07-14--2011-07-18)3 substitute; REGI (2009-07-16--2011-07-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2009-09-16--2011-07-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2009-09-16--2011-07-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that if we can now talk about a reduction in errors, we owe this to the skill, independence and professionalism of the Court of Auditors, and I should like President Caldeira to take note of this. I believe that, as well as the Commission, Parliament played an important part in this improvement, in particular, the Committee on Budgetary Control, which sets great store by the subject of transparency and the effective and efficient use of public funds. We must still see what we can do to improve, however, because there are still too many things that are not right, particularly in very sensitive sectors such as agriculture and cohesion, with often worrying error rates in sectors where fraud in areas such as contracts and over-invoicing is rife. I believe that it is necessary to lower the rate of bureaucracy and reduce pointless red tape and instead introduce a few clear rules to send out a very clear and determined ‘no’ to every form of fraud in sectors where corruption is endemic. Another important factor is to step up the role of OLAF, the anti-fraud office, to combat all forms of fraud and corruption. Another aspect that we cannot fail to emphasise – we learned this also from a recent visit by the Committee on Budgetary control to Italy – is that there is also a risk of the forceful influence of organised crime and forms of corruption on public funds. The role of OLAF could therefore be essential from this viewpoint, together with greater cooperation between Member States, the Commission and Parliament. Another absolutely essential point is that I believe the Commission must strengthen its independence from Member States. I believe that we must block funds to prevent repetition of this type of behaviour, particularly in states where serious errors – I am not talking about minor errors – and very substantial episodes of fraud have been going on for years. The credibility level of the European Parliament and the European institutions is determined greatly by the level of transparency and correctness with which public funds are spent. I therefore believe that we have room for improvement on this score."@en1
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