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Dernæst er vor støtte begrænset, fordi vi, i hvert fald i Udvalget om Regionalpolitik, har forbehold med hensyn til hvorledes Den Europæiske Investeringsbank skal fungere, både hvad angår dens praksis med at beskæftige sig med store projekter til skade for en politik i retning af regional samhørighed, og fordi den ofte lægger kriterier til grund, som var der tale om en privat bank og ikke en bank til fremme af samhørigheden.
Secondly, our agreement is also limited because, at least in the Committee for Regional Policy, we have our reservations on the functioning of the European Invest ment Bank, both as regards its tendency to concentrate its
HERMAN (PPE), ordfører. — (FR) Hr. formand, kære kolleger. De kan være rolige, den betænkning, som jeg vil forelægge for Dem, vil ikke være lang.
HERMAN (PPE), rapporteur. — (FR) Mr President, fellow Members, you may rest assured that the report I
Afalle disse grunde, og samtidig med at vi kan gå ind for Herman-betænkningen, ønsker vi at opretholde vort for behold med hensyn til substansen.
For all these reasons, while we vote for Mr Herman's report, we would like to maintain our undertaking to express our opinion on the substance.
Jeg bliver nødt til at fremhæve dette over for Parlamentet.
I have to make that point to Parliament.
Det kan under ingen omstændigheder accepteres, at Parlamentet får færre oplysninger end Kommissionen, når det udøver sin dechargeforpligtel.se og sit ansvar over for EF's skatteydere.
It is unacceptable in all circumstances for this House to be given less information than the Commission is when we are exercising our responsibilities in relation to discharge and the taxpayers of the European Community.
Der hersker således stor institutionel uenighed mellem os og Revisionsretten.
So we are in substantial institutional disagreement with the Court of Auditors.
Jeg vil imidlertid rose Kommissionen for at have være langt mere åben over for Budgetkontroludvalget end Revisionsretten, selvom jeg fandt det svært at nære tiltro til dens program for det fremtidige arbejde.
However, I would pay tribute to the Commission, even though I found it difficult to express confidence in its work programme for the future, for having been much more open with the Budget Control Commit tee than the Court of Auditors.
Men det må vi komme tilbage til på et senere tidspunkt.
We will have to return to that later.
MATUTES, medlem af Kommissionen. — (ES) Hr. formand, jeg vil gerne sige tak til hr. Herman og hr. Gutierrez Diaz for deres indlæg og sige, at jeg praktisk taget deler alle deres betragtninger.
MATUTES, Member of the Commission. — (£5; Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Herman and Mr Gutiérrez Díaz for their observations and tell them that I share practically all their concerns.
Selv om drøftelserne i forbindelse med den endelige vedtagelse af vedtægterne stadig står åbne for de vigtigste samtalepartnerne — EIB, andre banker og Fællesskabet — er den grundlæggende tanke med dette fællesskabsinitiativ fuldt ud defineret.
In addition, although conversations for final adoption of the statutes are still in progress between the main shareholders — the EIB, other banks and the Community — the idea underlying this Community initiative is very clearly defined.
Den vigtigste målsætning med Den Europæiske Investeringsfond er at bidrage til konsolidering af det store indre marked og til den økonomiske og sociale samhørighed.
The main purpose of the European Investment Fund is to contribute to consolidation of the single market and strengthen economic and social cohesion.
Denne fond vil komme til at spille en vigtig rolle for det europæiske vækstinitiativ, som er foreslået af Kommissionen og vedtaget af Det Europæiske Rad i Edinburgh. Aktionsområdet vil komme til at bestå af store transeuropæiske infrastrukturnet samt i finansiering af små og mellemstore virksomheder. Fonden vil komme til at handle i form af lånegarantier til de institutioner, som finansierer disse net, og som desuden yder kapital til små og mellemstore virksomheder.
This Fund will play an important part in achieving economic recovery, as proposed by the Commission and approved by the European Council of Edinburgh.
Hr. formand, Revisionsretten har revideret udbetalingen af eksportrestitutioner.
Mr President, the Court of Auditors has done an audit of the operation of export refunds.
Kort fortalt har revisionen klar lagt en række meget væsentlige faktorer.
In summary that audit indicates a number of very important factors.
Den har f.eks. afsløret, at to store multinationale selskaber — beretningen nævner ikke hvilke, men samtlige de to landes aviser har offentliggjort navnene som følge af lækager — i året 1989-1990 tegnede sig for 10% af samtlige eksportrestitutioner inden for mejerisektoren.
It shows, for example, that two major multinational companies — the report does not say who they are, but every national newspaper has published the names as a result of leaks — have accounted for 10% of all export refunds in the dairy sector in the year 1989 to 1990.
10% af samtlige udbetalte mejerieksportrestitutioner gik til to selskaber.
10% of the total paid in dairy export refunds went to two companies.
De to selskaber, hvoraf det ene er irsk og det andet tysk — ifølge Revisionsretten hver især sit hjemlands største organisation — var ikke blevet revideret af hjemlandets myndigheder i flere år forud for Revisionsrettens egen revision.
Those two companies, one Irish, the other German — the major bodies in each of the two countries, according to the Court of Auditors — have not been audited by their home country authorities for several years prior to the Court's own audit.
I Irland og Tyskland havde de nationale myndigheder altså ikke foretaget revision af selskaberne.
So in Ireland and Germany the companies have not been audited by the national authorities.
Tillad mig desuden at fremføre, at med oprettelsen af denne Fond håber vi, at Den Europæiske Investeringsbank vil kunne handle mere smidigt, eftersom — det ved medlemmerne, og nogle har også nævnt det — bankens vedtægter er alt for restriktive, for så vidt angår denne institutions beredvillighed til at tage risici.
It is hoped, likewise, that the creation of this Fund will enable the European Investment Bank to act with greater flexibility because, as the honorable Members know and some have said, the bank's statutes are excessively stringent as regards the risks the institution may incur.
De uregelmæssigheder, Revisionsretten har afsløret, resulterede i en budgetudgift, der anslås til mindst 16 mio ecu.
The irregularities that were identified by the Court of Auditors have incurred a budgetary cost estimated at at least ECU 16 million.
Retten bemærker, at der navnlig er to årsager til uregelmæssighederne: fordet første landbrugslovgivningens komplekse og/eller ufuldstændige karakter og for det andet svagheder i den nationale kontrol, og at disse mangler blot i denne ene sektor i disse to lande har kostet mindst 16 mio. ecu.
The Court states that the irregular ities in question stem mainly from the twin problems of both the complexity of agricultural legislation on the one hand and the incompleteness of relevant Community legislation and failures in national control on the other, those failures costing in this one sector in those two countries at least ECU 16 million.
Den fortsætter med at påpege, at der hidtil kun er inddrevet en lille del af de uretmæssigt udbetalte beløb.
It goes on to point out that the recoveries that have so far been made represent to date only a small proportion of the sums unduly paid out.
Dette er på sin side, hr. formand, udtryk foret af vore store problemer: hvis bedrageren afsløres — hvilket der ifølge den nuværende statistik kun er ringe mulighed for— får vi normalt ikke alle de penge tilbage, som han oprindelig ikke skulle have haft.
That again, Mr President, indicates a major problem that we have: if the fraudster is caught — and it is only a remote possibility according to present statistics — we usually do not get back all the money that he should not have had in the first place.
Kan De forestille Dem en forretning som Marks and Spencers sætte et skilt op med teksten »Vi bryder os ikke om butikstyveri, og tager vi Dem i at snuppe fem par sokker, vil vi sørge for at få i hvert fald ét af dem tilbage«?!
Can you imagine a company like Marks and Spencer putting up a notice saying "We disapprove of shoplifting, but if you get caught pinching five pairs of socks we will make sure that we get at least one of them back"?!
Det ville næppe afskrække en bedrager, men ikke desto mindre er det sådan, vi griber disse problemer an.
That would hardly be a disincentive to fraud, and yet that is the way that we are dealing with these questions.
A3-37/93) af Tomlinson for Budget kontroludvalget om revision af eksportrestitutioner til udvalgte større eksportører inden for mejerisektoren (Revisionsrettens særberetning nr. 2/92).
A3-0037/93) by Mr Tomlinson, on behalf of the Commit tee on Budgetary Control, on the audit of export refunds paid to selected major traders in the milk products sector (Court of Auditors Special Report No. 2/92).
TOMLINSOM (S), ordfører. — (EN) Hr. formand, jeg forelægger min betænkning på vegne af Budgetkontroludvalget; anledningen til den er Revisionsrettens særberetning nr. 2 af 1992. Jeg skal indledningsvis gøre Parlamentet opmærksom på, at denne beretning har ført til et væsentligt problem i forholdet mellem Parlamentet og Revisionsretten, et meget alvorligt institutionelt problem.
TOMLINSON (S), rapporteur. — Mr President, on behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Control I present my report, which is in reaction to Special Report No 2 of the Court of Auditors of 1992.1 should say to this House at the outset that this report has given rise to substantial problems in the relationship between this House and the Court of Auditors, a very serious institutional problem.
Vi har udelukkende fået den udgave af Revisionsrettens særberetning nr. 2 at se, som blev trykt i De Europæiske Fællesskabers Tidende.
We have merely been presented with Court of Auditors' Special Report No 2 in the form in which it was printed in the Official Journal.
Den udgave, der blev trykt heri, var i høj grad »saneret« og forkortet.
The form in which it was printed in the Official Journal was a highly sanitized version and a
På den baggrund må vi lykønske Revisionsretten med det arbejde, den har udført — om end vi er utilfredse med den hemmelighedsfuldhed, hvormed det er sket — og opfordre Kommissionen til at gå videre med sit arbejde og både offentliggøre heldigt gennemførte sagsanlæg og fortsætte alle sine bestræbelser for at få vore penge tilbage.
Against that background, we have to commend the Court for the work that it has done, but we deplore the secrecy with which they have done it, and call upon the Commission to continue its work, both to publicise successful prosecutions and to maintain every endeavour to get our money back.
Når det er sagt, består der nogle meget alvorlige strukturproblemer.
That said, there are some structural problems of great seriousness.
Budgetkontroludvalget agter at foreslå Præsidiet, som jeg håber godkender det ufortøvet, at vi senere på året afholder en stor offentlig høring for at indhente råd fra ikke blot Kommissionens og Revisionsrettens, men også medlemsstaternes sagkyndige om, hvordan vi på passende måde integrerer medlemsstaternes.
The Budget Control Commit tee will be proposing to the Bureau, which I hope will have no hesitation in giving its approval, that as we come into this year we have a major public hearing at which we take expert advice, not only from the Commission and the
TOMLINSOM europæiske skatteyderes penge spildt på en måde, som ingen i dette Parlament kan gå ind for.
Court of Auditors but also from the national states, about how we get a proper integration of the control activities of the Member States and of the Commission and of the Court of Auditors, and how we draw from that experience what has to be for us the most important consideration: what legislative changes need to be made in the structures so that we do not continue to see European taxpayers' money wasted in a way that nobody in this House would support.
ændringsforslag, vi har stillet, endnu en gang kræver mobile kontrolenheder.
way in which the EC budget is handled, while the main problem lies with Member States themselves.
Det er nødvendigt, at Kommissionen samarbejder med de nationale medlemsstater.
This completely undermines our credibility and I think it is only correct that, as Socialists, we once more request flying squads in the amendment we have submitted.
Kontrol udelukkende fra de nationale medlemsstater er åbenbart ikke tilstrækkeligt.
The Commission will have to carry our controls together with Member States.
Der må samarbejdes, og via mobile kontrolenheder må alle disse uregelmæssigheder og disse bedragerier opspores.
Cooperation is required and all such irregularities and such fraud must be tracked down by flying squads.
Dette er ikke det samme som at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved ordningen med eksportrestitutioner.
This is not challenging the system of export refunds.
Det er at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved den måde, hvorpå den fungerer, dens kompleksitet og den lethed, hvormed enhver, som har kommerciel interesse i uhæderligt, retsstridigt eller ulovligt at tappe ordningen for penge, kan gøre det.
It is challenging the method by which it is applied, its complexity, the ease with which anybody who has a commercial interest in extracting money unfairly, unlawfully, illegally from the system can so do.
Vi forventer derfor, at Revisionsretten fortsætter sit arbejde, ikke kun inden for mejerisektoren, men også i andre sektorer, hvor der udbetales store eksportrestitutioner, især oksekøds- og kornsektoren.
So we will expect the Court of Auditors to continue this work, not only in the dairy sector but in the other sectors that account for major payments of export refund money, in particular in the beef sector and the cereals sector.
KELLET-BOWMAN (PPE). — (EN) Hr. formand, også jeg vil gerne lykønske hr. Tomlinson med denne betænkning.
KELLETT-BOWMAN (PPE). — Mr President, I too would like to congratulate Mr Tomlinson on this report.
Selv ud fra hans høje standard er det en god betænkning.
It is a good report even by his high standards.
Han gjorde ret i at gøre opmærksom på de interinstitutionelle problemer mellem Revisionsretten og Parlamentet, som jeg tror har en pudsig årsag.
He was right to draw attention to the interinstitutional difficulties between the European Court of Auditors and Parliament and I think the problem arises for a funny reason.
Revisionsretten er i medfør af Maastricht-Traktaten nu blevet gjort til en fuldgyldig fællesskabsinstitution.
The ECA has now been made a full institution in the Community under Maastricht.
Men det har tilsyneladende bragt den i en identitetskrise.
But this seems to have brought them an identity crisis.
Måske prøver den at finde en anden rolle at spille i Fællesskabet, men den bør vide, at dens rolle er at få sandheden frem i lyset, overalt hvor europæiske midler gives ud, og aflægge beretning til Parlamentet gennem dettes Budgetkontroludvalg.
Maybe they are trying to establish some different role for themselves within the Community, but I would say to them that their role is to ferret out the facts wherever European funds are spent and to report back to Parliament through its Committee on Budgetary Control.
Jeg stoler på, at Revisionsrettens nye formand tager et konkret initiativ for at genskabe harmoniske forbindelser med Parlamentet.
I look to the new President of the European Court of Auditors to give a real lead in re-establishing harmonious relations with Parliament.
For at sammenfatte, hr. formand, må Parlamentet konstatere, at godt halvtreds procent af det samlede budget stadig går til landbrugsgarantiudgifter.
In conclusion, Mr President, we in this House have to note that we still have something over 50% of the total budget going to agricultural guarantee expenditure.
Omkring halvdelen af disse udgifter afholdes i medfør af ordningen med eksportrestitutioner.
Of that expenditure, about half goes on the system of export refunds.
Pengene går ikke direkte til landbrugeren som producent, men til det system, som afsætter de overskud, der opkøbes til intervention; det er et system, som giver handelsselskaberne mulighed for at begå svig, og som samtidig forstyrrer verdenshandelssystemet, sådan som vi har set i GATT-forhandlingerne.
It does not go directly to the farmer as a producer, but to the system of disposing of the surplusses that we take into intervention, a system which gives the opportunity for fraud to traders and at the same time disrupts the world trading system, as we have seen in the GATT talks.
Hr. for mand, dette er et symptom på et stort problem, som Parlamentet er nødt til at tage alvorligt.
Mr President, this is a symptom of a major problem and one which this House has to take seriously.
Jeg anbefaler betænkningen til Parlamentet på vegne af Budgetkontroludvalget. ludvalget.
I commend this report to the House on behalf of the Budget Control Committee.
Disse bedragerier giver hele Det Europæiske Fællesskab dårlig omtale.
These frauds bring bad publicity to the whole of the European Community.
Imidlertid opdager vi, at bedragerierne ikke finder sted i institutionerne, men på medlemsstats plan.
Yet, as in this report, we discover the frauds do not occur in the institutions, they are occurring down in the Member States.
Og det er i denne sag blevet påvist, at to medlems stater har svigtet.
And two Member States have been shown to be wanting in this case.
Jamen, hr. formand, restitutionsordningerne må da nu være blevet fejlsikre?
Surely, Mr President, the refund systems should be foolproof by now?
De har jo fungeret i en række år.
They have been operating for a number of years.
Retten må naturligvis følge disse undersøgelser op for at finde ud af, om noget sådant også finder sted i andre medlemsstater.
Of course, the Court must follow up these inquiries to make sure whether these things are not happening in other Member States.
GOEDMAKERS (S). — (NL) Hr. formand, allerførst må jeg naturligvis komplimentere ordføreren med betænkningen.
GOEDMAKERS (S). — (NE) Mr President, I must of course begin by congratulating the rapporteur on his report.
Han har længe og intensivt været beskæftiget hermed.
He has worked on it long and intensively.
Budgetkontroludvalget har støttet ham inderligt, og jeg tror også, at der er kommet vigtige resultater ud af det.
We fully supported him on the Budget Control Committee and I think that it also produced important results.
Hvad er kendsgerningerne?
Now, what are the facts?
Men Fællesskabet vil komme i vanry, hvis det ikke formår at inddrive alle de beløb, som det bevisligt er blevet bedraget for.
But the Community will fall into disrepute if it fails to collect all the monies proved to have been defrauded from the Community.
Og hvis det undlader at skærpe straffene.
And if it fails to improve penalties.
Hvad dette angår, hr. formand, lægger jeg vægt på, at der fastsættes straffe, der virker tilstrækkeligt afskrækkende til. at andre selskaber ikke begår lignende bedragerier, og på at idømte straffe bringes til offentlig hedens fulde kendskab. Sådan kan vi måske få ryddet op i nogle af disse ting i medlemsstaterne.
When I say penalties, Mr President, I insist that penalties are established which will act as a sufficient deterrent to other companies from carrying out similar frauds and that when awarded the penalties should be given full publicity: that way we might be able to clean up some of these matters in the Member States.
LANE (RDE). — (EN) Hr. formand, også jeg vender mig imod forsøg på svig af enhver art, og jeg mener, at Revisionsrettens nye rolle bør styrkes, således at alt svig kan blive afsløret og alt svig ryddet af vejen.
LANE (RDE). — Mr President, I also oppose any attempts at fraud and I believe that the new role of the Court of Auditors should be strengthened so that all fraud can be detected and all fraud can be wiped out.
Imidlertid vil jeg i denne situation stemme imod hr. Tomlinsons betænkning, for hr. Tomlinson er en meget præcis mand, og regnskabsvæsen og revision er meget eksakte viden skaber.
However, in this instance I will be voting against Mr Tomlinson's report because Mr Tomlinson is a very precise man and the business of accounting and the business of auditing are very exact sciences.
Betænkningen er efter min opfattelse utilfreds stillende på visse punkter, som jeg gerne vil henlede Deres opmærksomhed på.
In my opinion, there are certain aspects of this report that are unsatisfactory and that I would like to draw your attention to.
Revisionsretten har undersøgt to virksomheder.
The Court of Auditors audited two companies.
Den ene virksomhed modtog i 1989 206 mio ECU i eksportrestitutioner, dvs. 7,2% af samtlige eksportrestitutioner for mejeriprodukter.
One of the companies received ECU 206 million in export refunds in 1989, that is, 7.2% of total export refunds on milk products.
For denne ene virksomhed i Irland udgjorde det ca. 18% af omsætningen i 1988 og 40% af dens indtægter fra eksport til tredjelande.
That was about 18% of that one Irish company's turnover in 1988 and 40% of its income from exports to third countries.
Den anden virksomhed, en tysk virksomhed, modtog i 1990 75,5 mio ECU i eksportrestitutioner, og det udgjorde 3,9% af samtlige eksportrestitutioner for mejeriprodukter.
The other was a German company which received ECU 75.5 million in 1990 in export refunds, accounting for 3.9% of total export refunds on milk products.
Også for denne virksomhed udgjorde det 16% af omsætningen i 1990 og 37% af dens indtægter fra eksport til tredjelande.
For this company, this represented 16% of its turnover in 1990 and 37% of its revenue from exports to third countries.
Det drejer sig altså bestemt ikke om små virksomheder.
So we are certainly not talking about small companies.
Disse virksomheder blev, som hr. Tomlonson med rette siger, tilsyneladende ikke undersøgt en fire-fem år af de nationale kontrolinstanser.
It would appear, as Mr Tomlinson correctly states, that these companies had not been audited by national control bodies in the last four or five years.
Det er naturligvis skandaløst.
This is, of course, disgraceful.
Revisionsretten har i sin undersøgelse opdaget uregelmæssigheder for mere end 16 mio ECU, af det samlede beløb mere end 5%.
In its investigation, the Court of Auditors discovered irregularities of over ECU 16 million out of the total amount, or over 5%.
Det er ikke småting.
That is not small change.
Det drejede sig om problemer med forskrifterne, om manglende national kontrol, om problemer med kvaliteten af produkterne, der eventuelt endog var sundhedsskadelige, osv. Alt sammen yderst foruroligende ting, og disse virksomheder var ikke blevet kontrolleret i fire-fem år. Sådan kan det naturligvis ikke fortsætte.
There were problems with regulations, failure of national controls, problems with quality of products that might even affect health, etc.
Revisionsretten har også måttet mærke, at medlemsstaterne langtfra i alle tilfælde tog fuld del i undersøgelsen.
All very worrying situations, and these companies had not been audited in the last four or five years.
Dermed skades vor troværdighed, og jeg finder det da også kun rigtigt, at socialisterne i det
Things can obvious ly not continue in this manner.
Her er problemet, at medlemsstaterne ifølge den forordning, der var gældende indtil 1989, kun havde pligt til at revidere 50% af de selskaber, der var berettiget til eksportrestitutioner. Der forelå ingen forpligtelse til at revidere hvert selskab hvert eller hvert andet, tredje eller fjerde år.
The problem here is that under the regulation that applied up to 1989 Member States were obliged to audit 50% of the business that qualified for export refunds.
Forordningen blev ændret i 1989, og efter den nye forordning skal hvert selskab revideres mindst hvert andet år.
The regulation was changed in 1989 and that regulation says every company should
I punkt 2 b) er der således ikke tale om, at nogen forordning er blevet overtrådt.
The Court of Auditors must also have noticed that, in many cases, Members States do not cooperate in investigations.