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"Madam President, Commissioner, President of the Court of Auditors, I wish to repeat that the accounts have been signed off and that errors, of course, are not fraud, although we should naturally keep trying to reduce them. Member States can play their part. Indeed, they already have the information to stop or correct many of the errors, and they should use that information. At EU level we should do more on simplification to help reduce errors. For the current cohesion policy programmes, some attempts have been made to reduce errors through simplification, for example through the introduction of cohesion flat-rate payments and having one set of common regulations for the five different funds, although each of the individual funds still has its own rules. Hopefully the High-Level Group established by the Commissioner will look at this particular issue and many others, because it is important that we reduce bureaucracy and make things as simple as possible for beneficiaries, for auditors, for Member States and for regions. Indeed, when we visit regions and projects, they continue to make the same plea for greater simplification.
I also wanted to comment quickly on the issue of measuring performance. I think it is absolutely right that we should be looking to measure performance. The question is what we measure and how we measure it. Obviously, we need to do a lot more work on that, but it must surely be right for us to measure the results of spending of EU funds."@en1
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