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- mundtlig forespørgsel (B3-0020/94 - 0-0028/94) af Marck, Goedmakers, Holzfuss og Pasty for Budget kontroludvalget om konklusionerne fra Budgetkontroludvalgets besøg i Den Tjekkiske Republik med henblik på at undersøge forvaltningen af bevillinger under PHARE-programmet.
President. - Before I give the floor to the rapporteurs, I should like to welcome to the House the President-in-Office of the Council, Mr Kiriazidis, who has responded to Parliament's request and is taking part in this debate for the first time here today.
Afstemningstiden kan udmærket begynde kl. 17.30 og kan hurtigt afvikles, eftersom forhandlingen om de pågældende emner allerede er afsluttet, og der således ikke vil blive fremsat stemmeforklaringer.
Kiriazidis, President-in-Office of the Council. - (EL) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, my desire in making this intervention is to present to you the Council's recommendation concerning the discharge of the Commission in respect of the implementation of the budget for 1992.
Vi kan således sagtens påbegynde afstemningen kl. 17.30 og dernæst stemme om de fastsatte punkter og slutte med forhandlingen om Socratesprogrammet.
I am, accordingly, grateful to you for giving me this opportunity to express orally the essence of what is stated in detail in the recommendation forwarded to Parliament in our letter of 21 March.
Formanden. - Jeg forelægger Parlamentet forslaget om afstemning kl. 17.30.
That is, in any case, inescapable, given the difficulties, that we are all aware of, that the Member States are facing.
Formanden. - Før jeg giver ordet til ordførerne, byder jeg formanden for Rådet, hr. Kiriazides, hjertelig velkommen til denne forhandling; hr. Kiriazides har efterkommet Parlamentets anmodning og deltager i dag for første gang i denne forhandling.
Cornelissen (PPE), rapporteur. - (NL) Mr President, sound financial management of a European budget of some ECU 70 billion is essential if the citizens of the European Union are to have faith, and the Commission is responsible for this. The Commission, as holder of the purse strings, must manage the Union's expenditure properly.
(Forslaget vedtoges)
I eagerly await his comments.
Endvidere er i dag også formanden for Revisionsretten, hr. Middelhoek, til stede.
In the sitting on 22 Febmary Mr Friedmann of the Court of Auditors declared that the implementation of the budget in general terms has not improved over the last ten years, but on the contrary has deteriorated.
Også han vil følge vor forhand ling. Hjertelig velkommen i Europa-Parlamentet!
Under these circumstances it would be irresponsible in my view to recommend that discharge be granted for 1992.
(Mødet udsat kl. 13.10 og genoptaget kl. 15.05)
This in addition to the assessments carried out prior to the take-up of the resources.
De vil sikkert være enige i formandskabets, men også Rådets, overbevisning om, at Rådet og Europa-Parlamentet bør have et harmonisk samarbejde også på dette område.
As regards the detailed observations which accompany the Council's statement of principles, on the various issues examined in the course of the discharge procedure, I refer you to the recommendation.
Det, som altid har ligget Rådet stærkt på sinde - og jeg er sikker på, at det også gælder for Parlamentet - blev understreget endnu en gang i bestemmelserne i Traktaten om Den Europæiske Union.
Blak (PSE), rapporteur. - (DA) Mr President, I am extremely pleased that I do not have to be fuming, angry, and hysterical here today nor to be scandalized at how badly the Coal and Steel Community's accounts have been handled.
Den interinstitutionelle aftale om budgetdisciplin og forbedring af budgetproceduren, som vi indgik i slutningen af sidste år, præciserer de grundlæggende principper, der bør gælde for forvaltningen af Fælles skabets økonomiske anliggender.
They were: security for loans, research policy and the investment made in the property sector. We all know that there is a crisis in the steel sector and in the steel industry but I have to say that I was rather disappointed to see how one Member State pursued policy into a state of crisis and I feel obliged to name names.
Og dette er også tvingende nødvendigt i dag, hvor medlemsstaterne slås med de problemer, vi alle kender.
In my view, this means that we have granted a form of state aid to those companies - which is unfair to other companies.
Kommissionen, der sidder med pungen, må forvalte Unionens udgiftsside fornuftigt.
For ten years, that company has been laughing at the Commission, at us and at the taxpayers.
Revisionsrettens årsberetning kritiserer stærkt både udgifternes lovgyldighed og effektivitet.
Kellett-Bowman (PPE), rapporteur. - Mr President, I rise to speak on reports by the Committee on Budgetary Control concerning discharge for two of our satellite bodies.
Der tales om Kommissionens utilstrækkelige kontrol med strukturfondene og dens manglende evne til at kræve tilbagebetaling af uretvist udbetalte midler.
The first is CEDEFOP, the Centre for Vocational Training in Berlin, and in that the Budgetary Control Committee recommends discharge for the year 1992, and we would declare that it is a very well-run establishment.
I almene vendinger har Kommissionen - sammen med medlemsstaterne - stadig ikke formået at etablere et klart sammenhængende og effektivt system til forvaltning og kontrol af landbrugs udgifterne, der udgør cirka 50% af budgettet.
Goedmakers (PSE), deputy rapporteur. - (NL) Mr President, I am deputizing for Mrs Simons as Mrs Simons has important commitments in her capacity as observer at the elections in South Africa and has already had to leave.
Medlems staterne bærer også et stort ansvar på dette område, idet tre fjerdedele af landbrugsudgifterne går gennem de nationale myndigheder. Jeg vil bede om en kommentar fra formanden for Rådet om den ofte gentagne anmodning fra Rådet om sund økonomisk forvaltning.
The Foundation in Berlin is to move to Thessaloniki but that matter is the subject of another report which I shall be presenting to the House tomorrow morning.
En anmodning, der desværre virker lidet overbevisende på baggrund af medlemsstaternes adfærd.
Secondly, there is the military aid given to the food distribution in Somalia.
Jeg afventer hans kommentar med spænding.
There was no question of the need to intervene in Somalia - everyone agreed on that.
På mødet den 22. februar erklærede hr. Friedmann fra Revisionsretten, at gennemførelsen af budgettet i store træk ikke er forbedret over de sidste ti år, men derimod er forværret.
Neither of these bodies is involved in doing the research themselves but in commissioning and assembling it for the European institutions, especially the Commission. A rather strange thing happened in Dublin and we want an answer to this.
Derfor fremhæver Rådet i sin henstilling, at princippet om budgetdisciplin og fornuftig budgetforvaltning bør overholdes i forbindelse med alle aktiviteter, der finansieres over fællesskabsbudgettet.
Finally the main political issue. We in this House have been fighting for years to have the European Develop ment Fund incorporated into the budget to ensure proper control of its finance and to have our say in how the European taxpayers' money is spent.
I denne sammenhæng finder Rådet det især vigtigt, at begrundelserne for de aktiviteter, der gennemføres, jævnligt gøres til genstand for undersøgelser for at få størst muligt økonomisk udbytte af de midler, der anvendes.
I am trusting the report that it is on its way to us. I warmly congratulate Mrs Simons on this result which is an important confirmation to all of us in this Parliament who have fought this battle for many years and now see it ending in success.
Og dette skal ske uafhængigt af de begrundelser, der anføres, før midlerne anvendes.
Since this is a joint debate, I now turn to the Simons report on overseas aid and the development funds.
Revisionsrettens beretninger samt det kontrolarbejde, de er baseret på, er de grundlæggende redskaber til bekræftelse af anvendelsen af disse principper.
I would say to colleagues, both those in the House now and those who will be in the House following the elections in June, that if they wish to help Parliament, they can lobby their own governments to make sure that in the future the 'budgetization' of the development funds is part of the proper Community budget.
Under disse omstændigheder ville det efter min mening være uansvarligt at anbefale beslutning om decharge for 1992.
Kellett-Bowman report than a report to defer, but he is crystal clear in the reasons why he believes that Parliament should defer discharge to the Commission for 1992.
Det er min holdning, at Kommissionen først må gennemføre særlige foranstaltninger på disse områder.
He has brought to notice the fact that the 50 posts we voted in the budget last time for UCLAF, and for the fraud units specifically, should be based in UCLAF, not lodged in the other departments of the Commission.
For det første må Kommissionens bedrageriundersøgelsesenhed øjeblikkeligt tildeles 50 nye stillinger.
In this case Parliament insists that these 50 posts are part of the fraud-fighting team.
For det andet kræver Parlamentet fuld adgang til Kom missionens interne undersøgelse af bedragerier i dens tobaksafdeling.
deal with the discharge for our House, there is no Secretary-General present, there is not a single Director-General present, in fact there is nobody here to represent Parliament's administration.
En undersøgelse, der til min overraskelse blev indstillet, da den vigtigste mistænkte begik selv mord.
That is a disgrace which I invite you to report to the Bureau of Parliament.
Uopsætteligheden understreges af den nyligt udkomne, rystende særberetning fra Revisionsretten om udgifter på tobaksområdet: ECU 3.500.000 pr. dag.
It is not the first time I have made this complaint; I made the identical one a year ago.
Revisionsretten konkluderer, at finansieringen af to baksproduktionen ikke mindre end forøder de offentlige midler.
That is almost enough to provoke me into wanting to change my mind as to whether we grant them discharge because it shows a capricious attitude towards this House.
Jeg påskønner dog, at der siden dens offentliggørelse er sket visse forbedringer.
Nevertheless Parliament and the Budgetary Control Committee has decided to recommend discharge for Parliament.
Jeg vil endvidere benytte lejligheden til at fremhæve det fremragende arbejde, som Parlamentets Budgetkontroludvalg udfører hvert år i forbindelse med dechargeprocessen; det vil jeg gerne takke det for.
Equally, when we look at the question of the inventory, it is a scandal that thousands of items of Parliament property have been stolen from under our noses and we have failed to recover them.
Dette arbejde udføres naturligvis først og fremmest for Parlamentet, for at det kan udøve sine særlige beføjelser; men det er til gavn for hele Fællesskabet.
It is equally a scandal that thefts from Members' offices have taken place and that the administration chose to cover them up rather than report them properly.
Med hensyn til detaljerne i de bemærkninger, der ledsager Rådets principper inden for de forskellige emner, der er blevet behandlet under dechargeprocessen, vil jeg henvise Dem til de kommentarer, der ledsager henstillingen.
Perhaps you will draw the attention of the Bureau to the fact that this report, in paragraph 9, demands that the administration report to the Committee on Budgetary Control by the end of April 1994 which means they have approximately a week and a half in which to act.
Jeg kan ikke tolerere, at et land, der ikke har indført ordningen i 1993, ikke alene får tildelt en større kvota, men også undgår bøden.
When you think about it there should have been plenty of opportunities for those improve ments which Parliament has asked for to be introduced.
Det smager af, at forbrydelse belønnes.
We believe there should in addition be a heavy fine.
Lige behandling af borgere og skatteydere i alle medlemsstater er af grund læggende betydning for Den Europæiske Unions fremtid.
But, as in the case of grain in Italy, one does not particularly criticise the sharp people who decide there is an opportunity there to make money - £196m was defrauded in this grain scam - but it should have been detected by the inspectorates in Italy.
Jeg afventer med spænding Kommissionens svar på disse tre punkter.
In the report there are a number of other important points that I wish to mention very briefly.
Blak (PSE), ordfører. - Hr. formand, jeg er utrolig glad for, at jeg i dag ikke behøver være gal, rasende, hysterisk og skælde ud over, hvor dårlig administrationen af Kulog Stålunionens regnskab har været.
Budgetary Control is being given extra responsibility by Maastricht and I would say to this House yet again that Parliament itself needs to deploy more of its resources on specialized staff: we need qualified accountants to assist us in going through all the documentation which we are expected to look at, investigate and report on to this House and to the European taxpayer.
I år har vi et resultat, som vi kan være utrolig stolte af, og jeg vil gerne benytte lejligheden til at rose Kommissionen og Revisionsretten, specielt det personale, vi har arbejdet sammen med, for det gode samarbejde og den åbenhed, der har været.
We do not just need a small number of people to cover the various languages of the people on the committee, which is the normal way this House administers committees.
Når vi tænker på sidste år, hvor vi havde nogle gevaldige slagsmål, ja, så hjælper det engang imellem at tage en lille tørn og få talt ud om tingene, og så få løst problemer ne.
We need to have at our disposal these experts and next time we deal with Parliament's budget at the end of this year, we should be asking Parliament to provide us with the extra staff to meet these new responsibilities.
Men specielt mange tak til hr. Van den Abelle og hans folk for det utrolig frugtbare samarbejde, som jeg håber kan fortsætte, for så bliver det jo en ren fornøjelse at skulle aflægge regnskab.
I end, as I began, by recommending discharge for the two satellite bodies, CEDEFOP in Berlin and the European Foundation in Dublin.
Kiriazidis,formand for Rådet. - (EL) Hr. formand, mine damer og herrer, formålet med dette indlæg er at forelægge Dem Rådets henstilling af decharge til Kommissionen for gennemførelsen af budgettet for regnskabsåret 1992.
There is reference in the report to a number of other points, but I want in particular to mention the fact that in granting discharge to our administration and to our Secretary-General, in particular, we are excluding from that discharge, as you will see at paragraph 24, the management of building projects in Brussels.
Det glæder mig, at jeg herved får lejlighed til også mundtligt at uddrage essensen af den detaljerede henstilling, der blev tilsendt Parlamentet i en skrivelse af 21. marts.
Every Member of this House is well aware that we have had a long, thorough-going examination of both the structure and the implementation of the contract in Brussels.
Det er også sådan noget, der er med til at sætte humøret i vejret.
There is no point in this House bemoaning the fact that the Commission are not represented, or the Council are not represented when, when we come to
Det er blevet til, at man har købt tre små ejendomme i Namibia, hen over hovedet på udvalget. Men vi har talt om problemerne, og vi har fundet en model, hvor vi også kan løse det her i godt samarbejde, og det er i det hele taget utrolig glædeligt.
Tomlinson illegally, to sign a contract for yet another building project in Strasbourg without even the benefit of the advice of this committee.
Hvis vi kikker på selve Kul- og Stålunionens regnskab, så vil jeg sige, at vi fra Budgetkontroludvalgets side har fokuseret på tre områder.
views on what I have referred to as the political and philosophical aspects.
Det er specielt sikkerheden for lånene, forskningspolitikken og de ejendomsinvesteringer, der bliver foretaget.
That means that the dialogue between the Commission and Parliament has to be improved considerably so that we can be united in setting about our common task.
Alle ved jo, at det drejer sig om Tyskland, hvor to store virksomheder kom i krise, og Kommissionen efter forhandlinger måtte afskrive lån på grund af et politisk pres fra en stærk partner.
We in the Community should be concerned with defending the money provided by European taxpayers and ensuring that it is used for the right purposes even if, quite naturally, the legal responsibility lies first and foremost with the Commission.
I ti år har vi haft en sag om forkert rentestøtte udbetalt til en italiensk virksomhed, i ti år har virksomheden grinet af Kommissionen, af os og af skatteyderne.
I commend the Comelissen report to the House and I commend the report in my name on behalf of the Budgets Committee and hope that it will receive the assent of this Parliament.
Jeg håber, at det er et engangstilfælde.
We have often shown a great interest in the principle of proximity here in Parliament.
Jeg håber ikke, at vi skal opleve det samme i Italien, som også er i krise, hvor det kører utrolig dårligt, og hvor vi har en stor risiko for at miste måske 10 mia DKR.
In very general terms, we can say that it is extremely important for us to be very attentive in allowing the Member States to take care of the things they are best able to deal with themselves and to leave to the European Union the things which can best be dealt with by the European Union.
Jeg ved, at der bliver sagt: det sker ikke, hr. Blak, det sker ikke; bare tag den med ro.
As I said, that was the main topic of the 1991 discharge and Mr Comelissen touched on the meaning of the principle of proximity in connection with his 1992 discharge.
Men det skete i Tyskland, så derfor har jeg i min betænkning opfordret Kommissionen og Revisionsretten til virkelig at følge dette område og gribe ind i tide, så det ikke bliver et politisk spil, hvor nogle udøver et pres og laver skjult statsstøtte, og hvor andre lande så kommer i klemme.
I would like to come back to the 1992 discharge and to Mr Comelissen's report in a moment but first I should like to concentrate on my own report which is mainly concerned with monitoring the steps the Com mission has taken in connection with the 1991 discharge.
Der er en garantifond, og den har jo fået et gevaldigt knæk med det, som vi måtte afskrive i forbindelse med de tyske stålværker.
As regards the other points raised in my report, I should just like to say that we have introduced a paragraph which I believe is very important and that we now have a much easier task in broaching a demand which we, as a Parliament, had every right to make.
Hvis det sker igen, så kan man jo stille sig selv spørgsmålet: hvad vil der ske med den garanti fond, er den så væk?
Only one month ago, in March of this year, the Council of Ministers approved a common position on budget discipline.
Og hvad vil der i det hele taget ske på dette område?
I am highly satisfied that we have finally achieved a common position on budget discipline because I regard this as a major step.
Men Kommissionen har sagt, at de er opmærksomme, og med den måde, man har været åben i alle andre sammenhænge, tror jeg virkelig, at vi kan følge dette, at vi kan være med til at gribe ind på det rigtige tidspunkt, og at vi kan være med til at sikre, at det hele kommer til at glide fornuftigt.
It means in effect that the Commission can now go ahead and impose sanctions - and I hope that it will actually do so - against those Member States which are quite obviously failing to fulfil their obligations and are not ensuring that EU funds are being placed in the right hands.
Goedmakers (PSE), stedfortræder for ordføreren. - (NL) Hr. formand jeg er stedfortræder for fru Simons, der har en vigtig forpligtelse som observatør ved valget i Sydafrika, og hun har allerede måttet tage afsted.
Thanks to the Council's decision on budget discipline, the Commission can now halt monthly advance payments or reduce them.
Jeg må sige, jeg beklager hendes fravær meget, idet hun har lagt et omfattende arbejde i hele denne sag og har skabt vigtige resultater.
In short, we can tell the Member State or Member States in question that we cannot accept this behaviour and now they can be made to feel exactly what that means.
Problemet med fonden for kulturelt samarbejde, problemet med Somalia og problemet om klassificering af den europæiske udviklingsfonds budget.
The cash desk is closed and there are no more EU funds to be paid out until the Member State in question has proved that it is determined to abide by the rules.
Kort sagt var der intet, skatteyderen kunne være tilfreds med, og der var overbevisende bevæggrunde for at anmode Revisionsretten om en undersøgelse.
That is something European taxpayers have every right to demand of us, that we keep a tight rein on the Commission.
Jeg har forstået, at en sådan undersøgelse vil blive iværksat, og vi kan som Parlament tage udgangspunkt heri i forbindelse med videre foranstaltninger.
At least we now have the funds, largely thanks to the decision on budget discipline which was adopted just one month ago.
Her har jeg oplevet en grotesk situation.
Our report contains a number of points of criticism.
Der må foregå et lille spil imellem Kommissionen og Revisionsretten, for det er voldsomme angreb, der i rapporten er kommet fra Revisionsrettens side mod Kommissionen.
We touched on a number of issues to which we required a direct and very specific answer from the Commission.
Til gengæld må jeg sige, hvis det er evalueringsrapporter, så er jeg ganske tilfreds med det, der er kommet fra Kommissionen. Jeg har faktisk fået så mange, at jeg kunne fyre med dem i flere år.
I have to say that the Commission did not exactly make an all-out effort to answer all the points we raised.
Det er ikke nok at give penge ud, måske skal vi også kikke på, om pengene bliver brugt rigtigt.
We also have the 'early warning system'.
Det behøver jo ikke udelukkende dreje sig om en ligelig fordeling mellem landene.
I do not know just how 'early' the warning was in the past - just how early the warning came - but I understand that the Commission is now working to improve the early warn ing system.
Måske skulle vi snarere kikke på, hvor kan vi bruge pengene fornuftigt, således at vi kan sikre, at der bliver nogle arbejdspladser, og at vi i det hele taget kan dæmme op de steder, hvor der er krise.
In the hope that the system will offer much more timely warnings than before, I am prepared to welcome it because that is the sort of thing we need to provide a solution to many of the problems we in the Community have to resolve and that, as we result, we need to be able to explain.
Men min konklusion på det her er, at jeg er ganske tilfreds med det, jeg har set i evalueringsrapporterne, dog glæder jeg mig til at gå i dybden med det, der sker i forhold til den rapport, som Kommissionen har lovet os vil komme den 30. september.
It is very, very difficult to explain to people in your own Member State everything that is going on.
For det andet er der den militære bistand til fordeling af fødevarer i Somalia.
Then there are a number of points, to which the Commission gave no answer at all.
Der var ikke tvivl om behovet for at hjælpe i Somalia; det var alle enige om. Vi kunne ikke sidde tilbage og lade folk dø af sult, blot fordi vore bestemmelser ikke tillod os at tage foranstaltninger.
I fully understand why the Commission failed to answer one of the points raised in the report because I myself cautioned against it although the majority voted in favour of it nonetheless.
Derfor måtte vi i en vis udstrækning bruge vores fantasi for at udnytte bestemmelsernes muligheder.
I can quite understand that the Commission is unable to make any statement on drawing up a report if the majority of the Members of Parliament have removed the basis for such a report.
Jeg må indrømme, at der var enhver grund til at være taknemmelig over for kommissæren, fordi han hjalp os her.
Consequently, there will be no criticism from me if the Commission fails to answer a question which it is clearly unable to answer.