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Men De må være klar over, at det ikke er en beslutning fra EuropaParlamentet, der ligger til grund for udnævnelsen af en direktør.
Secondly, in the framework of the discharge for 1996, for which I am rapporteur, there is a feeling that the flaws in management organisation at the top of the Commission have led to a whole ream of irregularities and misdemeanours at lower levels in implementing policies. You have come forward with some ideas on screening.
Der findes en ad skillelse mellem de forskellige kompetencer.
We asked for that in 1995 and yet it is now nearly 1999.
Udnævnelserne i Kommissionens tjenestegrene varetages af Kom missionen, og den blander sig ikke i, hvem der udnævnes til direktører i Europa-Parlamentet.
We have not even seen the report on the statute that was asked for by the last parliament.
Derer visse interinstitutionelle regler, der skal overholdes.
We have never seen anything in that respect.
Santer, formand for Kommissionen. - (FR) Jeg kan meget let svare på disse spørgsmål.
Giansily (UPE). - (FR) Mr President, Mr Santer, a year ago Parliament approved an amendment to the budget on a minor matter of the appointment of a deputy director for an agency answerable to the Commission.
Det mål, som De er gået efter i Deres rapport, hvilket jeg støtter, og det har jeg sagt adskillige gange, selv her under debatten i oktober må ned, består i at sikre UCLAF's uafhængighed. Dette er Deres mål.
Neither Commissioner Papoutsis, who was responsible for the body in question, nor Commissioner Liikanen, as head of person nel, have been able to persuade the director, who has re fused to apply the vote of this House.
Det er derfor, at vi er gået lidt længere end Deres forslag, samtidig med at vi stræber efter det samme mål.
Lastly, you say you are nominating high-level officials.
Det drejer sig ikke om at foretage interne undersøgelser inden for Kommissionen.
There is a feeling that many have in this House, that you are in office but you are not in control of the overall system.
UCLAF udfører i øjeblikket mere end 900 undersøgelser i medlemsstaterne, hvor der er flest undersøgelser at gøre.
So how can we today have confidence that you can deliver next year on all the reforms that you have come to this House with today.
Inden for Kommissionen udføres kun 27 undersøgelser.
My question is: if we refuse to give discharge, are you ready to ask the commissioner for the portfolio where real embezzlement has been discovered - namely ECHO - to resign?
Størstedelen af undersøgelserne omfatter altså medlemsstaterne.
In other words, are you ready to sanction incompetence, because, in this specific case, I trust in the per sonal honesty of the commissioner in question.
I denne artikel er det anført, at Parlamentet giver Kommissionen de charge efter indstilling fra Rådet.
So, Mr Elles, I maintain my position, and I have been in politics long enough to know what it should be.
ØKOFIN-rådet, som ved, hvad det taler om, har allerede udarbejdet en indstilling til Europa-Parlamentet.
I would be amazed if in the United Kingdom, which is also a guardian of human rights, these rights were not respected.
Det er min pligt og min ret, og det indordner jeg mig efter.
I will check on this and let you know the reasons for our appointments.
Sådan vil det fremtidige UCLAF komme til at se ud, dette EU-kontrolorgan til bekæmpelse af svig.
However, you must realise that directors are not appointed by votes in this House, given that the separation of powers exists.
Det bliver en selvstændig organisme med egen skab af juridisk person, der får bistand fra dygtige eksperter, som vi vil kalde uafhængige, da det er eksperter på et meget højt niveau, som garanterer alle former for uafhængighed.
It is the Commission which decides on appointments made within its departments, and we do not ask the Euro pean Parliament whom it has appointed as its directors.
Jeg tror nemlig, at det er på den måde, at UCLAF og dets uafhængighed bliver styrket.
There are some interinstitutional rules which must be re spected.
En sag som denne kræver ingen undersøgelse fra UCLAF's side, men den viser ganske simpelt, at nogle af Deres kommissærer ikke kan få deres tjeneste
I regret that this is rather late but we only took up our posts in 1995
I forbindelse med dechargeproceduren for 1996, som jeg er ordfører for, gives der udtryk for, at de ledelsesorganisatoriske mangler i Kommissionens top har resulteret i en lang række uregelmæssigheder og mindre lovovertrædelser på lavere niveau i forbindelse med gennemførelse af politikker.
With regard to the refusal to give discharge to the Commission, I would say that the discharge procedure is taking place as stipulated in the provisions of Article 206 of the Treaty.
Elles hvilket vi bad om på det sidste parlamentsmøde.
Santer and the screening could not be carried out overnight.
Vi har al drig set noget i den retning.
We must all be reasonable, sometimes even this House too.
Vi ved alle, at der sker en ublu favorisering af partifæller i forbindelse med udnævnelser til topstillinger.
The initiation of an investigation by UCLAF does not neces sarily mean that an irregularity, incident of fraud or any thing else has actually occurred.
Mange medlemmer af Europa-Parlamentet har en fornemmelse af, at de sidder i deres embede uden at have kontrol med det overordnede system.
Generalisations are sometimes made public, which is a great disservice to the operation of UCLAF.
Derfor kan vi vanskeligt have til— • lid til, at De næste år kan gennemføre alle de reformforslag, som De har fremlagt for Parlamentet i dag.
We have tried to take all this into account in our proposal.
Santer, formand for Kommissionen. - (FR) Hr. formand, det er et meget præcist spørgsmål.
Dell'Alba (ARE). - (FR) Mr President, I must return to the document submitted to us on the Anti-Fraud Office -OLAF - as there is some uncertainty and confusion about this.
Jeg vil også svare meget præcist ved at henvise til artikel 3 i den bestemmelse, hvor det er anført, at Kommissionen på eget, en medlems stats eller UCLAF's initiativ kan pålægge UCLAF at ind lede en undersøgelse.
Perhaps you can clarify the way in which the Office might initiate investigations. As things stand, the present UCLAF can and does launch investigations on its own in itiative.
Men der står ligeledes i tekstens afsnit 6 og 12, at organet grundigt delagtiggøres i under søgelsernes iværksættelse, og - nu da De taler om iværksættelsen - er det ifølge afsnit 6 også muligt at organet indleder en undersøgelse på eget initiativ.
Apparently, according to this document -1 do not see this myself but my colleagues do and I should there fore like you to clarify this point - it would seem that the Office can act only on the instructions of the institution which it is supposed to inspect.
Organet kan altså indlede en undersøgelse på eget initiativ.
Could you clarify this point?
Alle institutionerne kan naturligvis også pålægge organet at ind lede en undersøgelse. Og som De kan se i de andre be stemmelser i organets vedtægt, er der et antal forholdsregler, som skal overholdes, for at organets fortrolighed bevares.
Secondly, you wanted to know when this new Ànti-Fraud Office might start work.
Man skal også respektere undersøgelsers hemmelighedsholdelse og beskytte privatlivets fred, når der iværksættes undersøgelser, der involverer privatpersoner eller tjene stemænd. Dette gælder i alle lande.
Could you tell us what exactly are the measures used to guarantee that UCLAF itself ensures the confidentiality of investigations?
Vi har ved at se på, hvordan UCLAF fungerer, erfaret, at dets aktuelle vedtægt har visse fejl, som vi har forsøgt at rette op på. Det er det dokument, som ligger foran Dem.
Buffetaut (I-EDN). - (FR) Mr Santer, I read with great interest the discussion paper distributed under your au thority and entitled The Commission of Tomorrow'.
Morgan (PSE). - (EN) Hr. formand, De sagde tidligere, at De tager Deres ansvar som formand for Kommissionen alvorligt, og vi ønsker at tage vores ansvar som parlament alvorligt.
Santer. - (FR) Mr President, this is a precise question to which I will give a precise answer.
Kan De her og nu love os, at De fremover regelmæssigt vil give os en liste over alle undersøgelser af påstået svig og korruption i stedet for den nuværende modstræbende og sporadiske information?
I would refer to Article 3 of the proposal which states that, on its own initiative and also at the request of a Member State or of the Office, the Commission can ask the Office to carry out an investigation.
Kan De endvidere fortælle os, hvornår det nye be dragerikontor senest vil være driftsklart?
It is also clear from paragraphs 6 and 12 of the explanatory statement that the Office is to be closely in volved in the launching - to use your word - of investigations (this is contained in paragraph 6) by allowing the Office to initiate an investigation on its own initiative.
Hvordan kan vi være sikre på, at De ikke bare sparker bolden ud af banen?
Therefore, the Office can initiate an investigation on its own initiative.
Vil det begynde arbejdet i denne Kommissions tiårige periode, og i givet fald hvornår?
Clearly, all the institutions can also ask the Office to carry out investigations and you will see that other provisions of the Office's statute contain certain precautions to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
Og nu til spørgsmålet om tjenestemandsvedtægten.
Based on experience gained during the operation of UCLAF, we have sought to rectify certain failings which exist in the current UCLAF statute and we have achieved this in the document submitted to you.
I denne henseende kan man ikke træffe afgørelser ved magtbud, det skal ske i samarbejde med personalerepræsentanter og fagforeninger.
You now have time to examine and scrutinise this and to make comments and amendments so that our work together can produce a joint result.
Vi har oprettet et paritetisk sammensat udvalg, hvis formand er den forrige generalsekretær Williamson, og han har lige for et par uger siden indgivet et forslag.
Santer. - (FR) Mr President, this document sets out the future of the European Union as a whole.
Jeg beklager, at det er lidt sent, men vi trådte i funktion i 1995, og Screeningsprocessen kunne ikke afsluttes allerede i 1995.
I will gladly make a statement on this and in fact I have already done so in the debates on the Union.
Man skal trods alt lige be vare fornuften. Og dette vil jeg til tider også bede parlamentarikerne om at gøre.
In my opinion, the Euro pean Union of the future will always remain bound to the Member States which, while retaining their national identity, will be integrated into the political union.
Santer, formand for Kommissionen. - (FR) Hr. formand, jeg tror godt, at jeg kan sige, at der ikke er noget i vejen for at give Dem listen over de undersøgelser, som UCLAF har indledt.
We do not want to build a United States of Europe along the lines of the United States of America.
Hvorfor ikke?
This is not our intention.
Men det betyder ikke, at de opførte undersøgelser nødvendigvis fører til opdagelse af uregelmæssigheder eller svig.
Economic rules can be harmonised to create a single in ternal market but the individual nations can never be harmonised.
Denne liste skal dog ikke ubetænksomt udspredes.
Therefore, national identity must always remain a part of the future Union.
Som metider er det disse uklarheder, der spredes ud til befolkningen, og det påvirker UCLAF's virksomhed i en negativ retning.
On the contrary, the Member States must realise that they will have a role to play in the future within the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.
Vi har ønsket at tage hensyn til alt dette i vores forslag.
These are the essential principles on which the European Union is built.
Dell'Alba (ARE). - (FR) Hr. formand, jeg vil gerne vende tilbage til det dokument om OLAF, som De har fremlagt for os, da der er en vis usikkerhed og manglende forståelse omkring dette.
Morgan (PSE). - Mr President, you told us that you take your responsibility seriously as the President of the Commission and we want to take our responsibility seriously as a parliament.
Kunne De måske gøre det helt klart for os, hvordan dette organ skal kunne indlede sine undersøgelser?
That responsibility includes holding the Commission to account.
Som det er i dag, kan UCLAF indlede en undersøgelse på eget initiativ, hvilket den også gør.
That is very difficult when documents are hot passed on to us.
Tilsyneladende mener nogle af mine kolleger, at UCLAF ifølge rapporten kun vil kunne indlede en undersøgelse, når det har fået instrukser om det af den institution, der skal kontrolleres.
Can you make a commitment to us today that you will give us a list of all the in vestigations of alleged fraud and corruption on a regular basis, not on the piecemeal grudging basis as we receive them now and answer when, at the latest, we will see the new Fraud Office operational?
Jeg, personligt, læser ikke dette ud af rapporten, men jeg vil alligevel bede Dem om, at klargøre dette punkt for os.
How can we be assured that you are not just kicking the ball into touch here?
Jeg vil derfor gerne vide præcist, hvilke sikkerhedsforanstaltninger, der an vendes af UCLAF selv for at garantere undersøgelsernes fortrolighed?
Santer. - (FR) Mr President, I believe I can say that there is no problem about providing a list of investigations
Jeg lagde mærke til, at Kommissionen på side 4
Secondly, you said in your speech that we are now going the right way about
Buffetaut nævner, at den i de kommende år har til hensigt i højere grad at koncentrere sig om de større vigtige politikker, forbindelser udadtil, valuta, intern sikkerhed, det indre marked, økonomisk og social samhørighed og de fælles politikker, hvilket reelt vil sige de beføjelser, der hører under en regering for en suveræn stat.
Do you realise that the budgetary authority, in other words the Council and Par­liament on the one hand and the Commission on the other, agreed as early as the 1993 budget to abolish the mini­budgets, and that we are therefore not going about things in the right way, but have actually defaulted on this agree­ment in a totally unacceptable manner?
Af alle disse grunde er euroen en magtfuld integrationsfaktor.
As you have probably noticed, we have several Eu­ropean institutions.
Vi er meget glade for, at euroen kan blive realiseret i praksis i elleve af vores medlemsstater.
I am perfectly happy with the current operation of the institutions within our European Union, which is my right and my obligation.
Jeg vil nu spørge Dem, hr. formand, hvad der i lyset af dette så er tilbage af de nationale demokratiers beføjelser?
In reply to your second question, all I can say is that I do not know nothing about it and therefore cannot give you an answer.
Og i det efterfølgende afsnit, hvori man nævner, at det bør overvejes at foretage en større uddelegering af de mere enkle administrationsopgaver, er det så til de nationale demokratier, at man vil foretage denne uddelegering?
If you have any other details, you have the op­portunity to tell the House about them. However, as Pres­ident of the Commission, I cannot answer your question.
Det er i øvrigt fra det øjeblik, at man opdagede tilfælde af svig.
President ­ Thank you, Mr Santer.
Jeg fik den idé at læse den tyske revisionsrets rapport, og jeg så ikke den store forskel mellem den og rapporten fra Den Europæiske Revisionsret.
President ­ The next item is the statements by the Coun­cil and the Commission on the preparations for the Vi­enna European Council of 11/12 December 1998.
Santer, formand for Kommissionen. - (FR) Dette dokument, hr. formand, giver et helhedsbillede af Den Euro pæiske Unions fremtid.
Santer. ­ (FR) Europe is clearly not just about the euro; it is not just a single market but much more besides.
Jeg vil meget gerne lave et indlæg om dette, jeg har i øvrigt allerede gjort det under unionsdebatten.
How­ever, the euro will be a powerful factor in the economic integration of Europe, firstly by allowing the internal market to be perfected, because I do not know of any in­ternal market in the world which can operate with four­teen different currencies without any distortion of compe­tition.
Men efter min mening vil fremtidens Union al tid forblive forenet med medlemsstaterne, der med deres nationale identitet vil blive integreret i den politiske union.
The euro will also be a powerful factor in political integration as it will give Europe and the internal market a European identity.
Vi ønsker ikke at lave Europas forenede stater efter samme model, som man har Amerikas forenede stater.
Thirdly, it will contribute to estab­lishing a zone of monetary stability and will therefore be a stabilising factor in our international monetary rela­tions.
Dette er ikke vores mål.
For all these reasons, the euro is a powerful factor in our integration.
Böge (PPE). - (DE) Hr. formand, ved henstillingen om decharge skal De ikke henvise til Rådet.
Ferrerò­Waldner, President­in­Office of the Council. ­(DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in just over a week the Austrian Presidency of the Council will culmi­nate with the European Council meeting in Vienna.
I foretagendet Europa er De formand, og vi er medlemsforsamlingen.
As the first European Council to be held in Austria, it is of course of very particular significance to us.
Derfor siger jeg endnu en gang: Det, som er formuleret i artikel 3 i forslaget, forbigår Parlamentets oprindelige forslag og kan ikke accepteres af os!
This Euro­pean Council is also important to all the Member States of the Union, in view of the major issues that are currently being discussed and negotiated in all the Union forums; but first and foremost, these issues are also of major and direct importance to the citizens of our countries.
Det er ikke kun på det administrative område, at medlemsstaterne vil have sine beføjelser, tværtimod.
The existence of the mini­budgets allowed UCLAF to discover cases of fraud in four ECHO con­tracts.
Med subsidiaritetsprincippet og proportionalitetsprincippet, der er de vigtigste byggestene i vores EU-arkitektur, må man indse, at medlemsstaterne også vil have deres rolle at spille i fremtiden.
The procedure which was initiated at the time and which is intended to gradually eliminate these mini­budg­ets under very difficult conditions was made possible due to agreement between Parliament and the Commission, and this is how we should continue.
Jeg ønsker også at spørge Kommissionen om den omtalte gennemskuelighed.
Furthermore, if you read the reports of the Court of Audi­tors of the Member States, you will find many irregulari­ties revealed in this way.
De svarede før på vores kollega Fabras spørgsmål om Europas fremtid med følgende: euroen.
But in the last few years as well, the European Union has taken a number of forward­looking decisions that now need to be implemented.
Tror De virkelig, at euroen er Europas fremtid?
Here, 1 January 1999 will be an historic date.
For det andet sagde De i Deres tale, at med den måde, vi tackler spørgsmålet vedrørende retsgrundlaget - det handler det ikke om nu -og minibudgettet på, er vi på rette vej.
With the imminent introduction of the common cur­rency, we shall be giving European integration a new di­mension.
Ved De, at det al lerede i forbindelse med budgettet for 1993 blev aftalt at afskaffe minibudgettet mellem budgetmyndighederne, nemlig Rådet og Parlamentet på den ene side og Kommis sionen på den anden side, og at vi ikke befinder os på rette vej, men på en uacceptabel måde er kommet bagud?
The euro, the only currency which, as the Ger­man President Mr Herzog put it, has already become the most stable one in the world even before its introduction, represents the culmination of a success story that goes back nearly five decades.
Santer, formand for Kommissionen. - (FR) Hvad angår det første spørgsmål, vil jeg blot sige til det ærede med lem, at Rådet er en af Den Europæiske Unions institutioner.
Böge (PPE). ­ (DE) Mr Santer, do not rely on the Council when it comes to recommending the discharge. You are the board of directors for project Europe and we are the general meeting, and I would therefore repeat that Article 3 of the proposal has nothing to do with Parliament's orig­inal proposal and is completely unacceptable.
Og Rådets repræsentant er til stede her i dag.
So what are the core elements of this unique experiment in the history of our continent?
Som De sikkert har fundet ud af, findes der flere forskellige institutioner.
They are unity in diver­sity, solidarity instead of domination, and the common exercise of sovereignty in common institutions.
Jeg retter mig efter institutionerne og den rolle, som de spiller inden for Den Europæiske Union.
The new structure of Europe following the end of the east­west confrontation and the increasingly rapid process of globalisation have triggered a tremendous dynamic force.
Det er i øvrigt min ret og min pligt at gøre dette.
In the space of just
Santer, formand for Kommissionen. - (FR) Selvfølgelig er EU ikke kun euroen og ikke kun det indre marked.
In the context of the transparency you have talked about, can you confirm or deny that, following inquiries by the Belgian authorities, the Commission's Legal Service rec­ommended that if Commission officials were asked whether social contributions had been paid as part of Commission contracts with firms, they should claim im­munity arid carry on the contracts as before?
EU er mange andre ting.
Do these documents exist?
Med hensyn til det andet spørgsmål, må jeg meddele Dem, at jeg ikke kender til denne sag og derfor ikke kan sige noget om det.
If so, would you be prepared to let the Committee on Budgetary Control have them, in confi­dence of course?
Unionen har derfor brug for nye impulser. Unionen har brug for en ny fastsættelse af det strategiske koncept.
Europe must speak with a single voice in the international financial institutions and in the G7 and assert its major economic influence more effectively than in the past.
Her ser jeg først og fremmest meningen og formålet med den diskussionsproces om Europas fremtid, som blev indledt i Cardiff, og som blev videreført under det østrigske formandskab på det ekstraordinære møde i Pörtschach i oktober.
That important issue must finally be resolved now that the third stage is due to enter into force in a few weeks' time. At present, as you know, the finance ministers are engaged in intensive discussions.
Formanden for Rådet, fru Ferrero-Waldner har ordet.
I believe that is the main purpose of the process of discussion on the future of Europe that was begun in Cardiff and continued under the Austrian Presidency at the informal Council meeting in Pörtschach in October.
Denne refleksionsproces har efter min mening vist to klare retninger.
In my view, this process of reflection has resulted in two distinct approaches.
For det første: en klar bekendelse til den dynamiske fortsættelse af den europæiske enhedsproces.
The first is a clear commitment to the dynamic continuation of the process of European integration.
De forestående udfordringer kræver mere og ikke mindre Europa.
The challenges facing us call for more rather than less Europe.
Men vi har også brug for større handlekraft, bedre instrumenter og større villighed til at bruge dem solidarisk. lidarisk.
But we also need more ability to act, better instruments and more willingness to apply them on a basis of solidarity.
Ferrerò-Waldner, formand for Rådet. - (DE) Hr. for mand, mine damer og herrer, kære parlamentsmedlem mer, om lidt over en uge kulminerer det østrigske for mandskab med afholdelsen af Det Europæiske Råd i Wien.
We ex pect Vienna to provide an impetus towards speeding up the work on these questions. The finance ministers will also be submitting a report on the reform of the international financial architecture to the European Council.
Dette råd har som det første Europæiske Råd, der finder sted i Østrig, naturligvis en helt særlig betydning for os.
In recent months, it has become clear that our capacity to manage financial crises is no longer anywhere near to matching the challenges of a globalised world economy. Europe has an important contribution to make in this re spect.