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"Mr President, this year’s report from the European Court of Auditors presents a positive picture, but there are some problems. The good news is that many areas are satisfactory, in particular, the major area of agricultural spending, as Mr Fjellner has already said. The bad news is that the predicted deterioration in the area of cohesion has taken place and 49%, in other words half, of all the payments audited in the area of cohesion had errors. That is a great number.
A total of 90% of all the payments with problems are made in the Member States. In our committee, we were critical at the time of the fact that the Council was not present. I am looking at the Council bench and the Council is once again not represented. The Council really should be here for this debate.
Two-thirds of all the errors occur in three Member States. I would like to congratulate you, Mr Šemeta, for having the courage to name these Member States in the committee. You have said that they are Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic. You have our support for this new policy of naming and shaming.
You have followed up another call by the European Parliament and I would like to thank you for this too. You have interrupted payments amounting to a total of EUR 2.4 billion. This is the only way that we will be able to introduce discipline in the Member States. After the process of damage limitation, we must identify the errors and name the culprits.
The key words here are effectiveness, efficiency and economic viability. There is also a new chapter where you, Mr Caldeira, make it clear in your report that the Commission often does not achieve the goals which it sets itself. Mr Šemeta, we will be interested to see the evaluation report from the Commission, which is expected in December. However, we would also like to say that in times of financial crisis, we must use taxpayers’ money in a way which is even more effective, more precise, more carefully targeted and more efficient. That is our job. I would like to thank the Court of Auditors for helping us to do this."@en1
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