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"Madam President, President Caldeira, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to thank the Court of Auditors for the important work that it undertakes on behalf of the European taxpayer every year. Mr Caldeira, you and the Court are and will remain a valued partner for us as Members of this House, the representatives of the European Union’s discharge authority.
A year ago, as we sat here discussing the Court of Auditor’s previous report, I said that the Court’s report presented a positive picture, but there were some grey areas. The picture is becoming steadily brighter, but there are still some spots of grey. The sum of EUR 130 billion was available in 2011, and of this figure, EUR 5 billion should never have been disbursed. That is an error rate of 3.9 %. Compared with previous years, that is an improvement, but it is still much too high. I am at a loss to explain how these figures can possibly be justified in view of the budget constraints throughout the EU.
However, there are some positive aspects. The instruments that Parliament, in its discharge reports, has given the Commission, especially in recent years, are being utilised at last and are working. This is happening to an exemplary – extremely exemplary – degree in the field of employment and social affairs. The Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and its Commissioner, Mr Andor, have since 2008 applied a consistent policy of suspending and discontinuing payments if current projects simply do not work. As a result, the error rate here has fallen to 2.2 %. I would like to congratulate you, Commissioner Andor, on these consistent efforts, which show how it should be done. I would like to extend these congratulations to Commissioner Šemeta as well, for he is of course involving in overseeing these efforts.
I myself, as one of the previous rapporteurs for the budget discharge, together with my parliamentary colleagues, reminded the House that funds that have been disbursed without justification must be recovered. This measure is also being used to an increasing extent, and I would like to congratulate you on this as well. My perusal of the Annual Summaries, which we Members are now permitted to inspect, has convinced me that this instrument is working.
As regards efficiency, there are still some problems here. The evaluation report has rightly been criticised by the Court of Auditors for being too vague. I would like to offer Mr Geier, who is reporting on the budget discharge this year, the support of the House as a whole in order to ensure that the procedure is improved."@en1
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