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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the motion under debate today sees the full implementation of the agreement that the budgetary authorities concluded in December on the 2012 portion of financing for the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) research project.
The ITER project, which involves the European Union as well as major countries such as Japan, the United States and China, requires a further EUR 650 million in appropriations and therefore the expenditure ceiling set out in Heading 1a of the financial perspectives needs to be revised by the same amount. Through this motion we therefore give the green light to this EUR 650 million increase in commitment appropriations.
The agreement on which this important aspect of the 2012 budget is based has been a crucial aspect of these budget negotiations. In fact I would say that it has been a fundamental condition for the 2012 budget conciliation to reach a positive outcome and for the negotiations to conclude. It has allowed us to substantially increase the funds in 2012 for important programmes such as Lifelong Learning, Competitiveness and Innovation, the Seventh Research Programme, and especially for allowing us to fund ITER using transfers as little as possible.
That was very important, representing a positive outcome that allowed this House to approve the agreement. ITER is therefore added to the 2012 budget without any negative impact on the implementation of other programmes and without becoming a burden on other programmes; that is a very significant fact.
Furthermore, this agreement and this motion marks the real beginning of the sensitive matter of implementing the 2012 budget. Even through we focus all our attention on the negotiations for concluding the draft budget, there is then the important step of putting it into action, which starts with this step and will see us take particular care over the sensitive matter of payments.
My hope is that, during the implementation of the 2012 budget, we will be able to re-locate the hitherto excellent spirit of cooperation between the Commission and Parliament in particular, which was crucial for finalising the budget and will be even more important for supporting its implementation."@en1
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