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"Mr President, I attended the conciliation meetings as rapporteur for the Parliament’s budget and the other sections budget, but we did not get even close to discussing those matters because of the discussions on draft amending budget No 5 and draft amending budget No 6.
I am delighted that draft amending budget No 5 has finally been agreed. For us in Parliament this was a moral issue and not a financial or a budget issue, so we are pleased with that. I am disappointed, however, that no agreement was possible on draft amending budget No 6. I am concerned that legal commitments will not be met and I am even more concerned about the future of some programmes and some projects. I would hope that the Council could come to some agreement amongst themselves on this matter because this is really a fight within the Council and they need to sort that out.
Returning briefly to the issue of Parliament’s and the other sections budgets, I just want to remind colleagues in this House how well we did. We have kept our increase next year down to 1.9 %, we have frozen Members’ allowances and cut various other budget lines. Of course, the 1.9 % figure includes the extra costs of Croatia and a 1.7 % salary increase so the real operating increase for this Parliament next year is only around 0.6 %, a cut in real terms. I think the Parliament can be proud of that.
In terms of the other sections’ budgets, there are really only two outstanding issues now. One is the overall level of increases which are to be given to the other institutions. The Council still wants a blanket freeze for all institutions in the budget next year. We are saying that is wrong. All the institutions are different and have different needs. Therefore we need to look at giving some of them an increase, but of course we are encouraging them to keep their increase down below 1.9 % as well.
The other outstanding matter is the 1.7 % salary increase, which is currently with the Court of Justice. This Parliament believes that it is prudent and wise to put that 1.7 % salary increase into reserve. Indeed, the matter could be worse because if the Court does uphold that salary increase, we could be looking at finding funds going back to July 2007. So I would urge the Council, even at this stage, to make the concession and to say we should be putting that 1.7 % salary increase into reserve. This Parliament thinks it is wise and prudent to do so."@en1
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