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Med disse få kommentarer, støtter jeg Elles- betænkningen og lykønsker endnu en gang formandskabet med det arbejde, det har gjort med at politisere denne vigtige proces.
To my mind the new Commission proposals regarding Agenda 2000 comprise far-reaching improvements, even though the problems of combating fraud, the question of who the interest should be paid to, and how this should be calculated has not yet been sufficiently worked out in these proposals.
Tomlinson (PSE). - (EN) Hr. formand, jeg vil gerne lykønske Rådet med den store opmærksomhed, det dette år har udvist over for dechargeproceduren.
Bardong (PPE). - (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the budget control mills grind slowly and still pro duce the same old bitter grain.
Rådet for tjener vores tak og vores lykønskninger for disse tre ting.
We have spent the whole time debating this matter with some intensity.
Det har gjort decharge-forhandlingerne mere seriøse.
Anyone watching our efforts from the outside would hardly be impressed by all this.
Formanden. - På dette tidspunkt bliver Rådets formand, fru Liddell, nødt til at forlade os på grund af et møde, en frilog om værdipapirer.
Nevertheless, we hope that this postponement - and our committee decision was a unanimous one - will produce greater efficiency and bring more pressure to bear on the Commission.
Jeg takker fru Liddell for at have været til stede.
I am sure that something will be set in motion before September.
Jeg vil gerne ledsage mine lykønskninger til Rådet med en advarsel til fremtidige formandskaber om.farerne ved og konsekvenserne af tilbagefald.
I believe that the decisive pressure only materializes according to whether or not there are sufficient votes to refuse a discharge, whether this be to day or at some unspecified time in the future.
Hvis de vender tilbage til deres gamle vaner, vil Parlamentet blive lige så indædt' imod et fremtidigt formandskab, som det er venligt stemt over for det nuværende. Derfor, mine lykønskninger!
There are certainly plenty of grounds for this - one only has to think of the lack of trust, which many speakers have mentioned, and the negative findings of the statement of assurance.
Og det er i denne sammenhæng - MEDA-programmerne - at vi finder to misforståelser.
The Commission has reacted in a very constructive way to many of the comments which have been made, but this is not enough as far as we are concerned.
Mit andet punkt er angående forsendelsesordningen.
I would like to focus on another point, Mr President.
Her vil jeg tage lettere afstand fra min gode ven, kommissær Liikanen. I sit indlæg talte han om, at Rådet havde ændret sin tilgang og beskæftigede sig med fem medlemsstater, som om det var en planlægningshandling.
People in this House speak regularly about the damaging sit uation related to the implementation of the recommenda tions on transit made by the Committee of Inquiry, and the damaging delay in computerization.
Det er det ikke.
I wanted to emphasize that.
Det er et bevis på fiasko.
But on 25 March I came across a new point in a Dutch newspaper which is on the one hand very in teresting, but on the other extremely alarming.
Det var ikke nogen bevidst be slutning at ændre tilgang.
Mr President, in the recommendation, we in the Committee of In quiry worked on the assumption that transit is only able to function when customs function as one in Europe.
Det var, fordi den kontrakt, vi havde om datamatisering, var en fiasko.
That is not to say that it is one service, but that it functions as one.
Samtidig med, at jeg er rede til at lykønske generaldirektøren og personalet i GD XXI, så mener jeg ikke, at vi kan have det ført til protokols, at alt skred mere eller mindre glat frem, og så besluttede vi at ændre vores tilgang.
This newspaper report in fact concerned Spain; Mr President, I read that the Spanish authorities are going to hold the cigarette manufacturers responsible for the sale of il legal cigarettes.
Tilgangen blev æn dret, fordi den var en fiasko, og de forbehold, vi har til forsendelsesordningen, er yderst alvorlige, som det frem går af artikel 4 i hr. Elles fremragende betænkning og ar tikel 15 i begrundelsen.
This is good news, but I think it will throw the entire system into confusion, because the Spanish authorities seem to be saying that the manufacturers are selling their cigarettes knowingly and despite warn ings to known smugglers.
Den første misforståelse: Europa-Parlamentet eller, mere præcist, Budgetkontroludvalget skulle være imod et de centraliseret samarbejde.
In recent years the debates have focused increasingly on the responsibility of the Member States, which account for some 80 % of EU spending and which are then re sponsible for controlling this expenditure.
Den anden misforståelse: Euro pa-Parlamentet skulle have blokeret for relanceringen al dette samarbejde.
The Commission is only responsible for monitoring this control process.
Men jeg vil gerne understrege, at hver ken det ene eller det andet er korrekt.
While this explains many a delay, it cannot serve as an excuse for everything.
Dette grønne lys vil endog blive bekræftet i den beslutning, som Parlamentei skal stemme om som afslutning på nærværende forhandling. ling.
The Commission remains re sponsible for failing to reveal the negligence of others and for not proposing adequate changes.
Der er i sandhed sket fremskridt. Men fremskridtets rækkevidde, indtægtstabet og den nært forestående udvidelse
Mr President, this raises questions such as what is the le gal situation?
Men hvordan skulle Parlamentet f.eks. kunne være imod samarbejdet mellem universiteter i medlemsstaterne og i
Because if the customs duties are not trans ferred, then there is the obligation to seek the guilty party,
Det forholder sig lige modsat - Europa-Parlamentet modsætter sig ikke dette, men der var et alvorligt forvaltningsproblem, og dette forvaltningsproblem var især lokaliseret i Bruxelles, hvor det blev opdaget af Revisionsretten.
We can only improve the effective ness of our budgetary control system by making it absolutely clear who is actually responsible and perhaps by taking a brave decision once in a while.
Når forvaltningsproblemet er blevet løst, kan program merne relanceres - naturligvis - men, og jeg vil gerne understrege dette men, det er nødvendigt at drage konsekvenser af det, vi har lært af fortiden.
It is perhaps indicative of the Commission's attitude to this postponement of the discharge that we hear that Com missioners' press officers are linking the intentions of this House with the forthcoming European elections.
fra, at transitten kun kan fungere, hvis toldvæsenet i EU fungerer som en enhed. Jeg behøver ikke at sige én tjene ste, men fungerer som en enhed.
What Mr Elles concludes as justification for the post ponement of the discharge is in itself nothing new.
Jeg lagde mærke til en beretning, der vedrører Spanien. Hr. formand, i denne avisartikel fra den 25. marts læste jeg, at den spanske re gering vil gøre cigaretfabrikanterne, altså producenterne af cigaretter, direkte ansvarlige fordet ulovlige salg af cigaretter.
Given the treatment which the special reports from the Court of Auditors have received in this House, the Commission should have had enough time to sort out the deficiencies in the external affairs programmes, in the SME sector and in all the other areas which the rapporteur has mentioned today.
Hr. formand, det giver anledning til spørgsmål som: Er det juridisk muligt?
Kjer Hansen (ELDR). - (DA) It saddens me that we have to have this debate on postponement of discharge at all.
Fordi, hvis afgifterne ikke indbetales, har man pligt til at søge efter de skyldige, men risikoen for at blive draget til ansvar ligger hos eksportørerne.
It saddens me because we would be better off expending our efforts on promoting the development of common policies rather than on cursing the Commission.
Hr. for mand, bliver de fritaget for dette ansvar eller er fabrikanternes bøder et supplement til dette ansvar?
But the reasons for postponing the discharge are numerous, as Mr Elles' excellent report so ably demonstrates.
Jeg tror, at der i begge tilfælde er tale om et præcedenstilfælde i EU.
These are familiar difficulties and Parliament is simply forced to prevail upon the Commission to take action.
Og for det femte: Europa-Kommissionen skal videresende alle detaljerne i sagen til retsmyndighederne i Belgien, Frankrig og Italien, så de kan undersøge eventuelle juridiske konsekvenser.
This concerns Agenda 2000, where one hears that Member States are crossing off their net payment assessments with increasingly ridiculous calculations, saying they are still paying more than the others.
Før jeg slutter, vil jeg gerne understrege, at jeg ikke tvivler på Europa-Kommissionens gode vilje til at relancere MEDAprogrammerne, men lige som den gode vilje ikke er tilstrækkelig til at bestå en eksamen, så kom igen til september og vis os, at De har lært noget af det, jeg netop har sagt her - og De skal ikke se på mig på den måde.
Obviously these same Member States can find nothing wrong when money is paid out by the Commission and by a Commissioner in the agricultural sector, despite the fact that there is no basis for this, despite the fact that agreements between the 15 Member States are quite clearly not being kept by certain countries and despite the fact that all that is needed is for the Com mission to put the brakes on and say: 'that is quite enough, everybody.
Rådet har sagt nøjagtigt det samme, selvom det har draget nogle andre konklusioner.
You will get no more money until you finally do what we originally agreed'.
For det tredje rejser der sig spørgsmålet om, hvorfor fa brikanterne i USA og Det Forenede Kongerige ikke har reageret på de spanske myndigheders henstillinger om at indstille leverancerne til kendte smuglere.
But I would like to express my appreciation that we have now got a positive dialogue underway, and that the Com mission is determined to take a number of measures de signed to correct the failures and inadequacies found in the programme today.
Dette spørgsmål vil eventuelt også på grund af den ensidige forkyndelse kunne medføre vigtige forskydninger i handelstrafikken.
I would like to note in particular the Commission's announcement today to the effect that the proposals set out in the special report on PHARE will be implemented in 1999, concerning delegating the ad ministration to the destination country itself.
Derfor finder jeg, at der er god grund til at stille spørgsmål herom til Kommissionen, med den slutkonstatering, at det nu er på høje tid, at medlemsstaterne indser, at denne type sager skal løses i fællesskab og med Kom missionen.
I look for ward to hearing that on 1 January the administration of the PHARE programme will indeed have been transferred to a specific country.
Så snart der gennemføres individuelle operationer bliver tingene blot meget værre end det, som Det Parlamentariske Udvalg allerede har konstateret.
I would also like to know the name of the country concerned, and I strongly urge the Commission to ensure that, if any legal changes are necessary, the relevant motions will be tabled, so that we can ensure that all obstacles are cleared out of the way to allow us to implement true decentralization on 1 January 1999.
Dankert (PSE). - (NL) Hr. formand, i beslutningen om udsættelse af decharge nævnes der næsten intet om strukturfondene, med undtagelse af de små og mellemstore virksomheder. Jeg tror heller ikke, at det er nødvendigt, fordi problematikken i »95 er nøjagtigt den samme som i »96, og vi har i mellemtiden haft SEM 2000, hvilket har medført en række forbedringer.
The matter is so simple, yet we have been behaving as if we had to make changes to ten thousand regulations.
Jeg tror, at de nye Kom missionsforslag vedrørende Agenda 2000 indeholder yderligere forbedringer, selvom jeg finder, at problemer ne med bekæmpelse af svig og om, hvem renterne tilfalder, og hvordan de skal modregnes, stadigvæk ikke er til strækkeligt godt sikret i forslagene.
We in the Euro pean Parliament have been scraping together money for SMEs - ECU 150 million this year, 150 million next year and so on - so that these small and mediumsized businesses can create job opportunities.
Bardong (PPE). - (DE) Hr. formand, mine damer og her rer, budgetkontrollens mølle maler langsomt og altid det samme sure korn. Det drejer sig nu om budgettet for 1996. Revisionsretten forelagde os sin beretning i 1997.
Bosch (PSE). - (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank the rapporteur, Mr Elles, who has pains takingly come to the conclusion that we should not at present give discharge to the Commission in respect of the 1996 budget.
Den, der udefra betragter vores bestræbelser, kan ikke være særligt begejstret.
The Court of Auditors says that 80 % of the enterprises lucky enough to have been awarded funding are com pletely unaware of the fact.
Alligevel håber vi netop gennem denne udsættelse - vi vedtog den jo en stemmigt i udvalget - at opnå øget effektivitet og et øget pres på Kommissionen.
I consider this to be a policy which is quite simply out of touch with the interests not only of this House but also of the citizens of Europe.
Hr. formand, jeg vil koncentrere mig om et andet punkt.
Rack (PPE). - (DE) Mr President, the course of this de bate on giving discharge for the 1996 financial year has in my view demonstrated two different things.
Men jeg har i den nederlandske presse, den 25. marts, set et nyt punkt, der på den ene side er interessant og på den anden side meget foruroligende.
The rapporteur is totally correct when he states that the approach which we have decided on is not at all abnormal, but rather constitutes a return to normality.
På den anden side nægter Kommissionen jo ikke på nogen måde at give os de nødvendige informationer.
institutional bodies, which as we all know, happened in the case of the investigative committees.
Kommissionen reagerer absolut konstruktivt på mange af bemærkningerne, men det er ikke tilstrækkeligt for os.
This Gordian knot must be cut, in other words a way must be found to provide the European Parliament with the figures it must have if it is to exempt or not discharge the Commission for its implementation of the budget.
Kommissionen har kun ansvaret for kontrollen med denne kontrol. Det forklarer ganske vist nogle af forsinkelserne, men kan ikke undskylde alt.
In recent days and weeks we in this House have been engaged in an intensive debate on the completely inadequate use of resources in central and eastern Europe, particularly in respect of the PHARE, TACIS and MED programmes.
Kommissionen er og bliver ansvarlig, når den ikke blot lægger disse forsømmelser fra andres side eller ikke foreslår tilstrækkelige ændringer.
With negotiations on new membership barely started, this completely inadequate deployment of funds hardly augurs well for the future.
Det er måske betegnende for Kommissionens indstilling til denne udsættelse af afgørelsen om decharge, at man hører, at nogle kommissærers pressemedarbejdere sætter dette udspil fra Europa-Parlamentet i forbindelse med det forestående Europa-valg.
A second point, one which I am repeating for the umpteenth time and which concerns the European Parliament, is that we ourselves ought as soon as possible to modify the way the Committee on Budgetary Control works.
For øvrigt er Europa-Parlamentets budgetkontrol stærke re end den er i de nationale parlamenter.
And the UCLAF cannot be autonomous if its employees continue to be bound by the employment conditions of the Commission's staff.
Virkningen af vores budgetkontrol kan kun forbedres, hvis vi gør det klart, hvem der reelt har ansvaret i hvert enkelt tilfælde, og hvis vi måske en gang træffer en modig afgørelse!
If UCLAF is to monitor the Commission, then those who are to monitor the Commission cannot be Commission employees.
Det, hr. Elles sammenfatter som begrundelse for udsættelsen af afgørelsen om decharge, er jo i og for sig ikke noget nyt.
Liikanen, Member of the Commission. - Mr President, thank you very much for this debate.
Det er trist, for vi skulle hellere bruge kræfterne på at videreudvikle de fælles politikker frem for at skælde ud på Kommissionen.
We have re ceived an undertaking from the President of the Commission, no less, that this Commission will be presenting a new disciplinary code.
Det er vel kendte problemstillinger, og Parlamentet er simpelthen nødt til at presse Kommissionen til handling.
We do not want the situation in the autumn to be the same as it is now.
Jeg har tid ligere givet udtryk for, at jeg synes, det er pinligt, at de fælles midler forvaltes så dårligt, som tilfældet er.
Sarlis (PPE). - (EL) Mr President, first of all I must com mend the rapporteur on his report.
Og det er skandaløst, at Kommissionen hidtil ikke har formået at gennemføre programmet på PHARE-området mere effektivt og få skabt konkrete og synlige resultater i modtager landene.
I agree with his recommendation to postpone the discharge, and I also agree with the reasons he gives in his report about why that should be done.
Der er imidlertid noget, jeg gerne lige vil ind på - og det gør mig ondt, at den fortræffelige fru Liddell netop nu var nødt til at gå til et møde - og det er den for mig helt uforståelige holdning hos medlemsstaterne i forbindelse med henstillingen om decharge til Kommissionen.
On the external programmes, I will very briefly mention that the Commission took a major decision in the autumn to create a common structure for all external programmes. This is now being implemented and we hope that it will be completed soon.
Det drejer sig om Agenda 2000, hvor man hører, at medlemsstater med stadig mere absurde kalkulationer fremhæver deres status som nettoindbetalere og siger, vi betaler endnu mere end den anden.
It means that management of the PHARE, TACIS, MEDA and other programmes will come under one common structure where we hope to standardize all the procedures and public tenders and simplify the way we run the external programmes.
I får ikke flere penge, før I om sider gør det, vi allerede en gang har aftalt.
If we have simple, transparent and standardized procedures it is much easier to con trol.
Men jeg vil gerne udtrykke min påskønnelse af, at vi nu har fået en positiv dialog i gang, og at Kommissionen er indstillet på at tage en række tiltag, som kan rette op på de fejl og mangler, der er i programmet i dag.
This common structure will be put in place this year and we will be able to keep the Committee on Budgetary Con trol informed of the process.
Jeg ser frem til at få klar besked om, at man pr. 1. januar vil overdrage forvaltningen af PHARE- programmet til et bestemt land.
This is something we must do to improve efficiency, but of course the balance between efficiency and control is a very delicate one.
Jeg vil også gerne have navnet på det pågældende land, og jeg vil kraftigt appellere til Kommissionen om, at den, hvis der skal ske nogle lovmæssige ændringer, sørger for at få fremlagt de pågældende forslag, så vi kan være sikre på, at alle hindringer er ryddet af banen, sådan at vi kan gen nemføre en reel decentralisering pr. 1. januar 1999.
We must, there fore, decentralize and deconcentrate as quickly as possible and the recipient country and authority must be able to re-organize their working methods accordingly. I have discussed this a lot with my colleagues and in the case of PHARE it is clear that we can move forward fairly rapidly in some sectors, perhaps more rapidly than with whole countries.
Det er så nemt, selvom man her altid lader, som om vi var nødt til at ændre ti tusinde bestemmelser.
The first is what the report refers to as lack of democratic responsibility on the Commission's part.
Vi har brug for folk i Kommissionen, som udviser en smule mod, og som fører politik i skatteborgernes ånd.
What does that mean? Or if you will, what is Parliament worried about?
Vi kradser i vores egenskab af Europaparlament et eller andet sted penge sammen til de små og mellemstore virksomheder, 150 millioner i indeværende år, 150 millioner i de kommende år, for at de små og mellemstore virksomheder kan skabe arbejdspladser.
Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Committee on Budgetary Con trol cannot reach an opinion, whether positive or negative, about discharges because the Commission will not give us the figures we deem necessary and have formally requested from it, to enable us to form any opinion at all.
Bosch (PSE). - (DE) Hr. formand, mine damer og herrer, tak til ordføreren, hr. Elles, som efter en omhyggelig op tælling kommer til den konklusion, at vi i første omgang ikke skal meddele Kommissionen decharge for 1996.
The current regulation on the service conditions of Com mission employees bans them from providing the Euro pean Parliament with figures without prior permission from the hierarchy.
Han skal endvidere have tak, fordi han gør opmærksom på, at vi ret beset, dersom Amsterdamtraktaten allerede havde været i kraft, overhovedet ikke havde haft nogen anden mulighed end definitivt at nægte Kommissionen de
That largely explains the dearth of figures we get, because as you can understand, we cannot form opinions based on the paroles d'honneur of various Commissioners to the Committee on Budgetary Control, for example 'there has been no deception' or 'the matter was investigated but no figures are available', etcetera.
Det anser jeg for en politik, som ganske ugenert undlader at tage hensyn til ikke kun Europa-Parlamentets, men
As far as DAS and the Structural Funds are concerned it has been suggested that not much has happened. Perhaps
Vi har med formanden og ordføreren drøftet muligheden for at gruppere disse spørgsmål, så vi måske kunne have et par møder inden sommer og gøre sagen færdig til efteråret.
Liikanen rapporteur the possibility of grouping these issues so that we could have perhaps a couple of meetings before the summer and finalize matters in the autumn.
Vi vil bevare en åben og kon struktiv indstilling.
We are keep ing an open and constructive mind.
Måske kan jeg kort nævne, hvad der er sket med strukturfondene, for vi har arbejdet meget grundigt med dette spørgsmål i de sidste par måneder.
I can briefly mention what has happened with the Structural Funds because we have been working very hard on this issue over the last few months.
Vi fik den første revisionserklæring i efteråret 1995.
We got the first DAS in autumn 1995.
Den viste, at der havde været et højt niveau af uregelmæssigheder, især hvad angår strukturfondene.
It showed that there had been a high level of irregularities, especially in the field of Structural Funds.
Uregelmæssigheder, ikke svig.
Irregularities, not fraud.
Den nævnte også, at de fleste af disse uregelmæssigheder, måske 90 %, finder sted hos slutmodtageren.
It also said that most of these irregularities, perhaps 90 %, take place at the level of the final beneficiary.
Det var i efteråret 1995.
That was in autumn 1995.
Formanden. - Næste punkt på dagsordenen er betænkning (A4-0082/98) af Theato for Budgetkontrol udvalget om retsforfølgning til beskyttelse af Unionens finansielle interesser.
President. - The next item is the report (A4-0082/98) by Mrs Theato, on behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Control, on criminal proceedings relating to the protection of the Union's financial interests.
I 1996 nedsatte vi gruppen af personlige repræsentanter for medlemsstaternes finansministre til at afklare situationen.
In 1996 we established the group of personal representatives of the finance ministers of the Member States to clarify the situation.
Vi samarbejdede med Revisionsretten og bad om råd fra den, og der var to nøgleområder.
We cooperated with the Court of Au ditors and asked their advice and there were two key areas.
For det første var reglerne om berettigelse ikke klare i den eksisterende for ordning.
Firstly, the rules of eligibility were not clear in the ex isting regulation.
Der var ingen aftale om, hvad der var berettiget, og hvad der ikke var.
There was no agreement on what was el igible and what was not.
For det andet var finansforordningerne principielt ikke accepteret.
Secondly, financial regulations were not accepted as a principle.