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Mr President, I would like to thank all of my colleagues for this debate. I would have liked also to have heard something more from the Council. It is a shame, but I am sure that we will have another opportunity to exchange views. Commissioner Lewandowski, at no time during any of the work did I forget that every day 14 000 workers in the Union have to take the rule book that is the Financial Regulation in their hands and work with it. For that reason, we are in agreement that this text clearly needs a comprehensive tidy-up. It needs to be streamlined and also made easier to understand. I would like the Commission to play a more active role in the negotiations than it has done up to now. We need the Commission, because we need to solve a great many problems relating to the details.
I would like once again to make a commitment to simplification. We want simplification, but our problem is the following: you are familiar with these tables. It is the multitude of different rules in the Framework Programme for Research. This diversity of rules was created by the Commission itself. I am sure that even the Commission has learnt from this in recent years. However, we simply must ensure that we take a much more coherent approach with regard to the next funds. Admittedly, in this regard we have sometimes also put forward complicated proposals. I have to say, though, that three quarters of our proposals are taken from the Commission’s texts themselves. I am now astonished to hear that the Commission’s texts are not supposed to be perfect, which I really cannot believe.
I look forward to the negotiations and I would also like to assure my colleagues from the committees concerned – the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Regional Development – that we have taken your concerns on board and we are taking them very seriously. We will not merely accept them here and then forget about them, but will bring them very specifically into the negotiations and we will fight for them, as the Council has already experienced to its cost in the part of the last sitting that was devoted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. We are one Parliament, and we also want everyone’s views to be reflected in this text, because everyone wants to play a part in improving the current situation. Therefore, Mr Geier, take heart. I know that you and your group are concerned that we are disappearing into the abyss of the Financial Regulation and you alone will remain behind. We would like to take you with us. So, I ask you: come to my office. I would like very much to explain the entire matter to you in around three hours."@en1
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