European Parliament resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (COM(2005)0181 - COM(2006)0213 - C6-0234/2005 - 2005/0090(CNS))
Date: 2006-09-06
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: budgetary control, financial management, financial regulation, general budget (EU), implementation of the budget

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Wednesday 6 September 2006

27.
Considers that the administration of authorisations outside Community waters (and of catch and
effort data relating to such activities) should be clarified, improved and computerised, and welcomes the
initiatives which the Commission has already undertaken in this area;

28.
Agrees with the Commission that the complex and lengthy procedures applied by the European
Union in order to transpose the provisions adopted by Regional Fisheries Organisations into Community
legislation are completely undesirable, but takes the view that most of the complexity in transposition stems
from excessive bureaucracy within the Commission itself and therefore categorically rejects the possibility
that any simplification process should be carried out at the expense of robbing the European Parliament of
its responsibilities as regards intervening in legislative procedures;

Calls, furthermore, upon the Commission to finalise a ‘standard agreement’ for the two main cate-
29.
gories of fisheries partnership agreement (mixed and tuna) on the basis of which the rights and the obliga-
tions of the two parties (Community and third country) will be enshrined;

30.
Considers that the process of negotiating and monitoring fisheries partnership agreements should be
reworked and simplified as a matter of priority and welcomes the efforts which the Commission has
recently made in this area;

Is willing to contribute actively to the effort required to implement the simplification process and

31.
calls for an on-going interinstitutional dialogue on better law-making in relation to the CFP;

32.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission.

P6_TA(2006)0343

Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of
Communities

the European

European Parliament resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the Euro-
pean Communities (COM(2005)0181 — COM(2006)0213 — C6-0234/2005 — 2005/0090(CNS))

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council

(COM(2005)0181) (1) and the modified

proposal (COM(2006)0213) (1),

— having regard to Article 279 of the EC Treaty and Article 183 of the Euratom Treaty, pursuant to which

the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0234/2005),

— having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 on budgetary discipline and sound

financial management (2),

— having regard to its re-consultation by the Council of 28 June 2006 (C6-0207/2006),

— having regard to its position of 15 March 2006 (3) and 6 July 2006 (4),

— having regard to Rules 54(3) and 56 of its Rules of Procedure,

(1) Not yet published in OJ.
(2) OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.
(3) Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0085.
(4) Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0312.

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1.
Notes that the Commission has altered its proposal pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty and, in
particular, that the principle of proportionality, the demand for more transparency, the excluded-participants
database and the Member States' annual reports have been incorporated, as called for by Parliament in its
amendments adopted on 15 March 2006;

2. Welcomes the incorporation of the principle of effective and efficient internal control, including a
tolerable level of risk;

Approves the modified Commission proposal of 18 May 2006 in so far as it takes account of Parlia-
3.
ment's amendments, without prejudice, however, to its position of 15 March 2006 and 6 July 2006, which
still applies unreservedly;

4.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

5.
Draws attention to point 45 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 on budgetary disci-
pline and sound financial management and to Declaration No 6 annexed thereto; calls on the Council to
adopt its joint guideline and initiate the conciliation procedure under the Joint Declaration of 4 March
1975 (1);

Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal sub-

6.
stantially;

7.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission.

(1) OJ C 89, 22.4.1975, p. 1.

P6_TA(2006)0344

EC-Albania agreement

European Parliament resolution on the conclusion of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement
between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Albania

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between the European Commu-
nities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Albania, of the other part
(COM(2006)0138),

— having regard to the Commission's Progress Report on Albania in the context of the Stabilisation and

Association Process of 9 November 2005 (SEC(2005)1421),

— having regard to the Commission's Enlargement Strategy Paper of 9 November 2005 (COM(2005)
0561) and to the European Parliament's resolution of 16 March 2006 on the Commission's 2005
enlargement strategy paper (1),

— having regard to its position of 6 September 2006 on this subject (2),

— having regard to Rule 103(2) of its Rules of Procedure,

A. whereas Albania fulfils the conditions to enter into the SAA with the European Communities and their

Member States,

B. whereas the SAA will

replace the 1992 Agreement on Trade and Commercial and Economic

Cooperation,

(1) Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0096.
(2) Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0339.