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"Madam President, allow me to join my colleagues in welcoming the European Court of Auditors’ Annual Report on the implementation of the budget concerning the financial year 2011. I would like to briefly comment on some aspects of it that I find particularly important.
Firstly: shared management. The report states that the highest error rates were found in policy areas under the shared management arrangements, namely in rural development and regional policy. If we want to improve the efficiency of control systems, all stakeholders should take their responsibility – including the Commission – but also, and especially, the Member States.
Secondly: direct management. 20 % of EU money is spent directly by the Commission, and the findings of the Court state that the error rate for research and other internal policies increased from 1.4 % to 3 % in 2011. Like my colleagues, I would be curious to learn the reason for this increase and what measures are being considered by the Commission to remedy this situation.
Thirdly: the link between inputs and results. I really welcome the new Chapter 10 of the Annual Report entitled ‘Getting results from the EU budget’. I believe that it is a step in the right direction. The EU budget should shift from a compliance-oriented to a performance-oriented model of spending – a model that looks at the results achieved. We need clear indicators, base lines and target levels in order to assess the achievements of these EU policies. The Court of Auditors’ report states clearly that there is scope for improvement. The Union faces a very important challenge: to do more with less money. Therefore, it is all of us together – Commission, European Parliament, Member States – who should find a way to spend every euro in a more efficient and effective way, to bring maximum results in these times of austerity. This is what European citizens are expecting from us.
Finally, please allow me, since this is my last speech in plenary, to use this opportunity to thank all my colleagues from the European Parliament – especially the colleagues from the Budgetary Control Committee and our secretariat – for the excellent cooperation we have had throughout the years. I am grateful for these years full of dynamic and lively discussions from which I have learned a lot, and I hope we will continue this cooperation. You can rest assured that dialogue with this Parliament will be a key priority in my future work."@en1
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