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dcterms:Date	"2011-11-15"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20111115.33.2-636-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-11-15-Speech-2-638-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-29--2012-02-12)3 vice-chair; CONT (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Groen (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2012-02-05)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to concentrate today on the functioning of Regional, Social and Cohesion Funds in 2010, which account for nearly EUR 37 billion by way of payments. The Court of Auditors’ analysis gives us food for thought. Several figures have already been mentioned. I will not repeat them. I would like to concentrate on perhaps the most important section in this chapter, namely recital 425. It reads as follows: ‘The Court takes the view that, in 58% of the transactions that showed errors, the authorities of Member States had sufficient information to detect and correct at least some of the errors’. Last week, the Commissioner did indeed tell us, in the Committee on Budgetary Control, that three Member States, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic, are responsible for two thirds of all the errors. A country like Poland, which is easily the largest recipient of all the funds, has done well, with an error rate of zero. This means that it is possible. I therefore think – as has been acknowledged by many speakers – that, in this discharge procedure, we very much ought to set our sights on the Council. Today, the Council is again not attending the debate and finance ministers are still refusing to sign a statement by which they would make it clear that their administrations, their people in charge of carrying out checks, are working correctly and indeed, that they have made no mistakes or that, in any case, any errors have been properly checked. I and many others, therefore, increasingly believe that we ought to tighten the tap pouring subsidies to those kinds of Member States. We have to suspend payments. We may need to withhold payments. We may need to go to the Court of Justice. We cannot allow this situation to continue. That, I think, is the only language the finance ministers will understand because, in that case, there will be questions asked in the national parliaments: what are you doing?"@en1
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