Resolution on Special Report No 5/97 of the Court of Auditors on management of the Community cereals trade involving export refunds, special import arrangements and regional aid schemes together with the Commission's replies (C4-0351/97)
Date: 1998-02-20
Institutions: Committee on Budgetary Control, European Parliament
Subjects: EU programme, European Court of Auditors, Portugal, animal feedingstuffs, cereals, export refund, import (EU), island region, maize, malt













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Resolution on Special Report No 5/97 of the Court of Auditors on management of the Community cereals trade involving export refunds, special import arrangements and regional aid schemes together with the Commission's replies (C4-0351/97)  


Official Journal C 080 , 16/03/1998 P. 0299 





A4-0021/98Resolution on Special Report No 5/97 of the Court of Auditors on management of the Community cereals trade involving export refunds, special import arrangements and regional aid schemes together with the Commission's replies (C4-0351/97)The European Parliament,- having regard to Special Report No 5/97 of the Court of Auditors (C4-0351/97) ((OJ C 159, 26.5.1997, p. 1.)),- having regard to Article 188c(4), second subparagraph, of the EC Treaty,- having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (A4-0021/98),A. whereas export refunds on cereals between 1991 and 1994 amounted to ECU 11 043 million; whereas the scale of appropriations thus paid to the various operators in the Member States has a real impact on the activities of the recipients of such payments and on the economic activity of the Member States,B. whereas in these circumstances the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States, should endeavour to take the measures needed to remedy the loopholes and shortcomings detected in Special Report No 5/97 of the Court of Auditors at the earliest opportunity,1. Deplores the fact that the flat-rate processing coefficients have remained unchanged for 24 years, which has entailed substantial additional costs for the budget of the European Union;2. Calls on the Commission to:- recover amounts paid unduly owing to the absence of checks on the origin of exported malt;- clarify the rules regarding the eligibility of compound feedingstuffs for refund payments;3. Calls on the Commission, as a matter of priority, to consolidate its Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of export refunds on agricultural products ((OJ L 351, 14.12.1987, p. 1.)) in order to harmonize and improve the quality of physical checks on exported cereals;4. Calls on the Commission to implement, in collaboration with the Member States, a genuine policy for coordinating checks on multinational undertakings by the relevant national authorities and to inform Parliament of the results achieved;5. Calls, in agreement with the comments made by the Court of Auditors, for the supply of maize to Portugal from third countries to be organized so as not to disrupt Community production and not to entail additional costs for the budget of the European Union;6. Considers that a reform of the POSEIMA scheme based on the observations of the Court of Auditors is necessary and should take into account inter-island distribution needs, in particular;7. Calls on the Commission, pending the new interinstitutional negotiations on commitology, to comply fully with the agreement of September 1996 between the Commission and Parliament on this matter;8. Asks the Commission to forward a report on the consequences drawn from the Court's findings under the relevant clearance of accounts procedures, in time to be included in Parliament's discharge decisions on the clearance of accounts;9. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council and the Court of Auditors.