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"Mr President, Mr Wammen, Commissioner, Mr Caldeira, welcome to all of you! We are pleased that, for the first time, you are taking part altogether here in this debate on discharge. This really is like Christmas and Easter all in one day for us. It is something quite special today, and I would like to emphasise that once again.
I would like to take the opportunity to address the President of the European Court of Auditors first. The debate has shown that, with regard to the agencies, we really need your Special Report on cost benchmarking of the European Union agencies. You informed the President of Parliament that, due to staffing problems, you were unable to prepare this report. I would ask you most sincerely to provide us with this report. It is a useful report, which we have been counting on, and are still counting on, to a considerable extent in the Working Group on agencies. I would ask you once again most sincerely to give us this report, in particular, the figures that we know to be very promising. We need these figures. Please give them to us. We also need your opinion on the subject of conflicts of interest in the agencies.
What we are seeing here resembles a civil war in terms of relations within the European Parliament. I would simply like to point out that there is definite justification for criticising the agencies. Three of the 32 agencies have been criticised – that is to say, there are three agencies where we and our rapporteur see problems. I would like to expressly support the rapporteur on one particular point and that is regarding the European Environment Agency. My fellow Members from the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – and Mr Gerbrandy – you are making a mistake here. We have uncovered facts in this regard, and the more time we spend on this, the more questions we are forced to ask. It is simply not acceptable for an agency to give subsidies to a non-governmental organisation, for this non-governmental organisation to arrange seminars in distant parts of the world, and for it to then invite the employees of this agency to these seminars. I do not consider this to be acceptable. If you find that acceptable, then that is even worse! In my opinion, we need to do something about this.
I would also like to address the Council. You spoke of reciprocal screening. However, it is Parliament that grants discharge; you make a recommendation. That is why we also had a nice debate again yesterday as part of the negotiations on the Financial Regulation. We need an interpretation of Article 319 of the Treaty, and of Article 335 – autonomy of the institutions. We have tabled proposals in this regard. However, it would be up to you to make a statement on these."@en1
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