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Rundt om i landene har man en følelse af, at man ikke har ret til dette, men jeg mener, at disse udvalg har opnået denne ret i kraft af Maastricht, og jeg håber, at Retten vil insistere på, at de udfører sådanne undersøgelser.
I form the strong impression that the use of public funds is judged by a different yardstick, and a different kind of conscience, from the use of private funds.
I virkeligheden er svindel og spild et tydeligt tegn på, at der foregår tilsidesættelse af subsidiaritetsprincippet.
If I were responsible for a private organization in Germany, and the result of my efforts produced an auditor's report like this one, I can assure you that I should be clearing my desk the next morning!
Mit spørgsmål er således følgende.
So my question is: how much damage, roughly, has been done to the European Union?
For at kunne bekæmpe dette spild inden for rammerne af det nuværende system, må der atter indsprøjtes en masse penge: tror De ikke, at det ville være meget mere besparende ganske enkelt at sætte en stopper for tilsidesættelsen af subsidiaritetsprincippet? cippet?
Dankert (PSE). - (NL) Mr President, I feel there is a clear impression within the Community that the rules are increasingly being flouted, so you wonder if it would be a good idea in these circumstances to strengthen the role of the Court of Auditors, for the simple reason that if we do, this flouting of the rules will become even more embarrassingly public.
Igennem hele beretningen rettes der en kraftig kritik mod Kommissionens forvaltningsstruktur og kontrolsystem.
And it is fortunate that this report is being presented after the Swedes have held their referendum, because other wise they might have discovered that within the Com munity even the Danes are no longer to be trusted.
Og alligevel vil jeg sige til formanden for Revisionsretten, at Rettens egen organisationsstruktur er en kopi - en kalkering - af Kommissionens.
I am told that over half the money given to agriculture in Denmark was improperly given.
Belleré (NI). - (IT) Hr. formand, kære kolleger, jeg ville gerne have opholdt mig lidt længere ved to punkter, i hvert fald hvad angår mit land Italien: momskvotaen og mælkekvotaen.
My third question is this: I noticed that in your summary alone you expressly mention the Federal Republic of Germany on three or four occasions, particularly in the context of the difficulty of tracing funds in transactions between the various Federal Länder.
Selv om mit indlæg er kort, går det imidlertid i en anden retning: det skal handle om beskyttelse af familien.
I take this to mean there is obviously a severe black mark against the federal principle when it comes to the proper administration of funds.
Vedtægten for tjenestemænd bestemmer tjenestemændenes rettigheder og pligter.
As I would like to defend the principle of federal ism, my question is this: what explanations has the Federal Republic of Germany offered on this specific point, and what proposals is the Court of Auditors making to this House with a view to achieving proper financial management and control in a federal system?
Vedtægten garanterer visse konkrete situationer.
Just one question, Mr President.
Af formandens beretning, afsnit 16, mere præcist i punkterne 16.22, 16.23 og 16.24 vedrørende godtgørelse for de årlige rejser, fremgår, at Revisionsretten har standset betalingen af de omtalte rejser for de tjenestemænd, der har et andet oprindelsessted end deres ægtefæller.
The reports says that in some instances the Court could not do its job for lack of cooperation. That never surprises me when we are talking of the Member States or certain bodies but here it is Commission departments which are causing the obstruction, that is what the report is in fact saying.
Tror De ikke, hr. formand, at denne procedure er i klar modstrid med vedtægten, når Revisionsretten hævder at beskytte alle tjenestemændenes rettigheder, hvad enten de har forskel ligt oprindelsessted og arbejdssted eller ej?
Despite all the fine words of Commissioner Schmidhuber it does not surprise me either, but maybe the Court of Auditors can explain in more detail.
Dankert (PSE). - (NL) Hr. formand, jeg har det indtryk, at der i Fællesskabet klart er tale om aftagende respekt for reglerne, og så spørger man sig selv, om man i en sådan situation ikke også skulle styrke Revisionsretten yderligere af den enkle grund, at den mangel på respekt for reglerne så ville træde endnu mere frem.
Berthu (EDN). - (FR) Mr President of the Court, as the preceding speaker has just recalled, for ten years you have been denouncing serious management and control defects in the administration of the Structural Funds, which give rise to serious errors and even more waste -this should be stressed - than fraud.
Det indtryk, der formidles ikke kun dér, men også i de øvrige medlemslande, er, at denne beretning indeholder en tilintetgørende kritik af Den Europæiske Union.
This is not a universal explanation, it is a consequence rather than a cause.
Nu er jeg enig med Dem i, at mangt og meget er tilintetgørende, men jeg vil dog lige tillade mig at gøre opmærksom på, at 80% af Den Europæiske Unions udgifter direkte eller indirekte forvaltes af medlemsstaterne, nemlig 49% inden for landbrugsområdet og 31% i forbindelse med strukturfondene.
Kellett-Bowman (PPE). - Mr President, may I join the many who welcomed the President of the Court of Auditors this morning and thank him for his report, and also thank him for his work in improving the coordination between the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Court.
Så gøres der opmærksom på, at det først et år senere i Berlin virkede
This is why there is a tendency to adhere to formal
Jeg må således faktisk antage, at mere end halvdelen af landbrugsudgifterne i Danmark er afholdt på uretmæssig vis.
The form of this report enables those being criticized to answer back - and that must be good!
Samland påfaldende, at Kommissionens overførsel af bevillinger ne inden for rammerne af EFRU kom til udbetaling i DM i stedet for i ecu.
Kellett-Bowman forward recommendations for amending those Financial Regulations during the current review.
Der var da tale om et økonomisk tab på 1,2 mio DM, som slet ikke blev bemærket i Berlin!
how many more millions it is going to cost before this register is finally ready for use.
Hvorledes kan vi opbygge et system, som i forbindelse med decentrale beslutningsstrukturer også giver den centrale beslutningsstruktur en mulighed for at kontrollere det, som også skal kontrolleres decentralt?
I should also like to see it support very strongly the idea that public accounts committees in the Member States should carry out investigations into 'Euro-fraud'.
Det skal frem i forgrunden ved bedømmelsen af denne beretning, og De kan være sikre på, at jeg som ordfører vil gøre mig stor umage for at tage dette problem op også over for medlemsstaterne, for vi bliver nødt til at finde en løsning.
There is a feeling in the countries of the Union that they do not have the right so to do, but I believe that Maastricht gave them that right, and I hope the Court will insist that they do that.
Wemheuer (PSE). - (DE) Hr. formand Jeg vil gerne lige stille hr. Middelhoek et helt konkret spørgsmål. De skriver, at i syntesen viser medlemsstaternes forvaltnings- og kontrolsystemer sig at være mangelfulde, og det er dejo så åbenbart i mange tilfælde.
Bourlanges (PPE). - (FR) Mr President of the Court of Auditors, once again you remind us of Sisyphus, rolling a rock up a hill, denouncing the eternal repetition of irregularities.
Kunne det være en idé at afbryde strømmen af penge til dem, indtil der bliver truffet korrigerende foranstaltninger?
I myself have been a member of the Court of Auditors in France and I know that your lot is that of all national courts of auditors.
Det er kun en tanke, men jeg tror, den er fuld af sprængstof, dersom man ville føre den ud i livet.
You incessantly denounce irregularities, which then continue to occur.
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I believe that we should look into the reasons for this eternal repetition.
Der knytter sig også et spørgsmål til Kommissionen til den. Hr. kommissær, der er blevet anvendt 26 mio ecu til opbygning af vinavlskartoteket; i henhold til hr. Middelhoeks beret ning er det imidlertid stadig ikke operationelt.
I think we should go in exactly the opposite direction.
Jeg har prøvet at regne ud, hvor mange personer der skal beskæftiges, for at det kræver 26 mio ecu.
Throughout the report there is strong criticism of the management structure of the Commission and its control system.
Jeg ville være Dem taknemmelig, om De kan sige os, hvornår vi kan regne med, om hvor mange yderligere millioner vi kan regne med, at dette kartotek omsider bliver operationelt.
And yet I would say to the President of the Court that its organizational structure is a copy - a shadow - of that in the Commission itself.
David (PSE). - (EN) Hr. formand, her til formiddag har man lagt stor vægt på misbrug under den fælles land brugspolitik og navnlig inden for vinsektoren, og man har direkte og indirekte henvist til lande som Italien, Portugal, Grækenland og så videre.
I hope that during the coming year the Court might review its work in such a way that it is able to deploy the highly qualified staff in the cabinets for operational purposes and act more like a firm of auditors and produce even better reports.
Bourlanges (PPE). - (FR) Hr. formand for Revisionsretten, endnu en gang gør De indtryk af at gennempløje havet og gøre opmærksom på de evindelige gentagelser af uregelmæssighederne. Jeg kommer selv fra Revisionsretten i Frankrig, og jeg ved, at Deres skæbne er lig den, som alle nationale revisionsretter lider.
Samland (PSE), chairman of the Committee on Budgets. - (DE) Mr President, Mr Middelhoek, Mrs Theato, I would like to discuss three points which seem important to me.
De gør uafladeligt opmærksom på uregelmæssigheder, der gentager sig igen og igen.
The impression conveyed, not only in Britain but in the other Member States too is that this report is a devastating criticism of the European Union.
Jeg tror, kære kolleger, at det er nødvendigt at spørge sig selv om årsagerne til denne evindelige gentagelse.
From this point of view, Mr Berthu, you must not forget that the more decentralized the management, the stronger the control at central level must be.
Nogle forventer løsningen i en svækkelse af fællesskabsinstitutionerne og en større handlefrihed for medlemsstaterne.
Lastly, we must move boldly towards harmonizing Com munity criminal law and, in particular, towards making fraud against the Community budget an offence.
Jeg mener, at vi bør gå i den stik modsatte retning.
It is in this direction that we need to go, not in the direction of weakening the Community institutions.
Men jeg vil gerne foren stund henlede opmærksomheden på det, der er sket under Den Europæiske Fond for Regional Udvikling i lande som Det Forenede Kongerige.
Let me quote from the report, page 133, paragraph 7.91 -one should always probe the wounds of one's own country before pointing a finger at others.
Et eksempel: på side 125 i Revisionsrettens beretning henvises der specifikt til Llwyd i North Wales i Det Forenede Kongerige, og det antydes, at det relevante ministerium - ministeriet for Wales - ikke gav tilstrækkelig med oplysninger som krævet i henhold til forordningerne.
It says here: ERDF appropriations were used to finance the building of a poultry slaughterhouse in Brandenburg, though a project of this kind would not have received support from the EAGGF on account of excess capacity in this market area. And so it goes on.
Det finder jeg yderst bekymringsvækkende, og ligeledes at disse omfattende uregelmæssigheder kun er kommet frem på grund af en stikprøvekontrol.
Then it is pointed out that it was a year before Berlin realized that the Commission's transfer of funds under the ERDF was paid in German marks instead of ecus.
Det, jeg mener, er, at stikprøvekontroller simpelthen ikke er tilstrækkelige: det, vi har brug for, er en systematisk og tilbundsgående kontrol af, hvad der foregår på medlems staternes område.
This, after all, amounted to a financial loss of DM 1.2 million which had not even been noticed in Berlin!
Mit spørgsmål til Revisionsretten er følgende: Vil man støtte sådanne foranstaltninger?
You write that, in summary, the Memher States' financial management and control systems are proving to be defective, and obviously that is true in many cases.
Jeg vil gerne spørge, hvorfor jeg på vej til Strasbourg i går morges kunne læse alt, hvad jeg ønskede at vide - eller alt, hvad de irske medier mente var relevant - vedrørende beretningens indhold?
So my specific question is this: am I right in thinking that the intention here is not to demand repayment of money which should not have been paid, but to cut off finance in general because the system is defective and not because an incorrect payment has been made in one particular case.
Jeg mener, at vi bør gå i fire retninger.
If that is so, who in your opinion is to determine when this case arises?
For det første er det meget vigtigt at styrke Kommissionens kontrol- og undersøgelsesmidler.
How is this penalty to be applied soon after the event, rather than any old time in the future, if it turns out three years later that something has gone wrong?
Her må De ikke glemme, hr. Berthu, at jo mere decentraliseret forvaltningen er, jo stærkere må kontrollen fra centralt hold være.
Who determines this, who cuts off the funds, on what legal basis, and who can then reverse the decision, and how?
Der er en forbindelse mellem subsidiaritet og en styrkelse af den centrale kontrol.
When I see errors like these, I must say quite frankly that our biggest problem lies in the area touched upon by Mrs Miiller in her third question.
For det andet må man give hårdere sanktioner til de medlemsstater, der går med til svindel og tilskynde dem finansielt til at gøre noget ved den.
How can we develop a system which, with decentralized decision-making structures, invests the centre with a facility of monitoring what also has to be monitored at a decentralized level?
For det tredje bør der oprettes en budget- og finansdisciplindomstol, der endelig vil tillægge reglen om personligt ansvar for anvisningsberettigede myndigheder, regnskabsansvarlige og revisorer virkelighed.
This is an area in which the Member States are completely failing in their responsibility, the responsibility they have for 80% of the European Union's funds!
Endelig må vi arbejde ihærdigt henimod en harmonisering af strafferetten i fælles skabet, nærmere bestemt henimod at gøre svindel med fællesskabsmidler til en strafbar handling.
This must be in the forefront of any evaluation of this report, and you may be sure that I, as rapporteur, will do my utmost to ensure that this problem is also discussed with the Member States, because we must find a solution to it.
Det er i den retning, vi må gå, det er ikke imod en svækkelse af fællesskabsinstitutionerne. Foreslå De det, hr. formand for Revisionsretten.
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Vil De ikke nok, i stedet for at foreslå det, fremsætte det.
I have calculated how many people would have to be employed in order to use up ECU 26 million.
McCartin medierne ønskede at vide om årsberetningen? Jeg vil gerne bede hr. Middelhoek besvare dette spørgsmål.
David turai policy and in particular in the wine sector, and direct and indirect reference has been made to countries like Italy, Portugal, Greece and so on.
Formanden. - Jeg mener ikke, at det var til forretningsordenen, det var snarere et ganske præcist spørgsmål til formanden for Revisionsretten, som jeg nu giver ordet for at svare.
the Commission wished to append a certain response from the Danish authorities to its reply.
De forslag, der er fremsat, og også de kritiske bemærkninger sætter jeg megen pris på, og dem har jeg da også noteret mig.
I said, if the Commission is prepared to accept responsibility for this Danish appendix then it will certainly be published.
aflægge om regnskabernes pålidelighed og de tilgrundliggende transaktioners lovmæssighed og retmæssighed, er pålagt Revisionsretten af Maastricht-traktaten.
Why did I say that, Mr President? Because only the institutions can reply to comments by the Court of Auditors; not other bodies, institutes or Member States.
Det har jeg faktisk taget til efterretning.
But I say again, the matter is clear.
Jeg vil indledningsvis helt kort komme ind på det, hr. Schmidhuber har sagt.
But I should like to focus attention for a moment on what has been happening under the European Regional Development Fund in countries like the United Kingdom.
Hvis hr. Schmidhuber læser teksten til indledningen i årsberetningen nøje, så vil han konstatere, at Revisionsretten siger, at udviklingen af de finansielle systemer og den økonomiske forvaltning ikke har holdt trit med de stadig mere omfattende opgaver for Fællesskabet og stigningen i budgettets omfang.
For example, on page 125 of the Court of Auditors' report specific reference is made to Clwyd in North Wales in the United Kingdom, and an allegation is made that the government department concerned - the Welsh Office -was not providing sufficient information, as is required under the regulations.
Men på et givet tidspunkt vil vi alligevel skulle komme frem til den diagnose, om den nuværende situation er acceptabel. Så kommer Revisionsretten til den konklusion, at der således på en lang række punkter skal udøves kritik. Ikke kritik for kritikkens skyld, men kritik for en mulig forbedrings skyld. Kritik skal være drivkraften bag for bedring.
I am extremely concerned about this, and also that this substantial irregularity has only come to light because of a spot check.
Klokken 12.00 har Revisionsrettens formand nemlig lejlighed til at afholde en lille pressekonference.
Well, my answer to Mr Tomlinson is yes, I am aware of them.
Den kan desværre ikke vare længere end en halv time.
But that is not to say I agree with what he suggests.
Det er derfor, der efter denne pressekonferences afslutning i hallen foran salen, hvor pressekonferencen finder sted, er lejlighed for journalisterne til at stille mig yderligere spørgsmål, som de ikke har stillet under pressekonferencen.
I am well aware that the Committee on Budgetary Control carried out a study of the proposed European Parliament building in Brussels.
Jeg finder det et minimum af gæstfrihed i det mindste at byde på sodavand.
The Court of Auditors most certainly took note of it and even referred to it in its annual report.
Punktet fra hr. Schmidhuber om, at vi, Revisionsretten, har fortiet og undladt at offentliggøre svar fra Kommissionen; denne kritik afviser jeg blankt, fordi den ikke er sand.
McCartin (PPE). - Mr President, before Mr Middelhoek replies I should like to raise the question of whether or not he was supposed to come here this morning to unveil this report for the Members of Parliament.
De danske myndigheder har bedt Kommissionen, om Kommissionen ville tilføje en bestemt reaktion fra de danske myndigheder til dens svar.
I want to ask why it was that on my way to Strasbourg yesterday morning I could read all I wanted to know - or all that the Irish media thought was relevant - of the contents of this report?
Jeg har spurgt Kom missionen, om Kommissionen selv ville påtage sig ansvaret for denne reaktion fra de danske myndigheder.
In addition, was it in order for a member of the Court of Auditors to go on radio as happened yesterday morning -while we Members were making our long and difficult journeys to this Parliament to participate in our democrat ic right to be the first people to have an opportunity to comment on this report - and give the public everything the media wanted to hear about the report?
Det ønskede Kommissionen ikke at gøre.
I should like Mr Middelhoek to address that question.
Jeg sagde: Hvis Kommissionen ønsker at overtage ansvaret for dette danske bilag, så bliver dette bilag helt bestemt offentlig gjort.
President. - I feel that that was not so much a point of order as a highly specific question addressed to the President of the Court of Auditors, and I call upon him to reply.
Hvorfor det svar, hr. formand?
Quality control, very briefly, is not a matter for the president.
Det er alene institutionerne, som kan svare på bemærkningerne fra Revisionsretten, ikke andre organer, institutioner, medlems stater.
The Court of Auditors is a collective body: its members, of whom the president is one, have a collective responsibility.
Desuden, hvis den danske regering eller de danske myndigheder gives lejlighed til at komme med en reaktion, hvorfor skulle Forbundsrepublikken i et lignende tilfælde med kritik mod Tyskland ikke have selvsamme ret til forsvar?
The statement of assurance concerning the correctness of the accounts and legality of the transactions to which they refer is required of the Court of Auditors under the Maastricht Treaty.
Hr. Tomlinson har stillet en række spørgsmål om, om jeg var mig en række forhold bevidst.
Middelhoek, President of the Court of Auditors. - (NL) Mr President, I am grateful to Parliament for the interest with which it has received our annual report.
Nuvel, mit svar til hr. Tomlinson er, at jeg er mig alle de spørgsmål bevidst, som han har stillet.
I greatly value the suggestions, and also the criticisms, which have been made, and I have taken note of them.
Men det vil ikke sige, at jeg er enig i den suggestion, hr. Tomlinson har lagt i spørgsmålene.
Mr Tomlinson also asked about the evidence submitted to the House of Lords select committee by himself and Mr Wynn.
Revisionsretten har ganske afgjort taget det til efterretning og har også selv anført det i sin årsberetning.
I hope too that Mr Tomlinson took note of what Mr Wiggins, the UK member of the European Court of Auditors, said to that same committee.
Jeg vil gerne sige, at Revisonsretten, hvad nærhedsprincippet angår, har en noget anden opfattelse.
For one thing I was keen to extend an invitation to the Members of Parliament who are interested in this matter.
En helt anden sag er, at ansvaret ikke desto mindre er delt ved iværksættelsen af den politik.
Unfortunately this cannot be longer than half an hour.
For eksempel er landbrugspolitikken uddelegeret til medlemsstaterne, også kontrollen er uddelegeret til medlemsstaterne. Det er mere eller mindre det samme med strukturfondene.
After the press conference is over there is thus an opportunity in the same hall for journalists to ask me additional questions not raised during the press confer ence.
Det, hr. Samland har sagt, er naturligvis fuldkommen rigtigt.
I should like first of all to respond briefly to what Mr Schmidhuber said.
80% af budgettet gennemføres i samarbejde mellem Kommissionen og medlemsstaterne.
The Court of Auditors said that the Commission has been trying to improve the position.
Det er i sig selv en struktur, som ikke er let, som giver bestemte problemer.
But we are required at a given moment to make an assessment of how far the current situation is acceptable.
Det er vi nødt til at erkende.
The Court of Auditors concludes that in many respects there are grounds for criticism.
Hvorfor den forpligtelse hviler på medlemsstaterne?
Criticism has to be constructive.
Det sidste punkt, hr. formand, at sætte mere personale ind ved den finansielle kontrol i Kommissionen og medlems staterne.
My last point, Mr President, concerns the need for more staff for financial control in the Commission and the Member States.
Det er efter min formening en liste over mulig heder, man seriøst må overveje for at forbedre situationen.
This, to my mind, is the list of possibilities which warrant serious consideration if things are to improve.
Jeg siger ikke, at hvert punkt på listen har lige stor betydning.
I would not claim that all the items on the list are of equal importance.
En foranstaltning kan sandsynligvis delvist erstatte en anden, men det er klart, at der således er store muligheder for at nå frem til en forbedring af situationen.
One measure may probably partially replace another, but clearly there is plenty of scope for improving the situation.