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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EC and ECSC budgets for 20002
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991026.2.2-051"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-26-Speech-2-0522
lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Volksunie (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, firstly I would like to give my reaction to the rather naïve comments made by Mr Martinez about Kosovo. The money that we want to spend in Kosovo, Mr Martinez, will largely be spent on rebuilding the 80,000 homes that were destroyed there. Those homes, Mr Martinez, were destroyed not by NATO but by your friends there, that is to say, by certain Serbian paramilitary organisations. That is the truth of the matter and there is no other. I am indebted to the rapporteur and the Committee on Budgets for their support for Amendment No 69, which I submitted with the support of Mrs Van Lancker and Mr Beysen, as well as most of the Flemish and French-speaking Belgian Members. It provides for an appropriation of EUR 50 million to be taken up in the financial reserves for financing the activities to be undertaken by those producers or Member States wishing to set up an integrated quality control system for the whole food chain. That will make it possible for us to restore the consumer’s faith in his or her food. And so I will take the opportunity at this plenary sitting to say that it is my express wish that the Council should lend its support to this amendment. Secondly, I would like to affirm my support for paragraphs 13, 17 and 57 of the Bourlanges report. Paragraph 57 relates to the allocation of additional posts to OLAF and the Veterinary Office in Dublin. I endorse what Mrs Morgan, Mr Walter and Mr Mulder had to say about this. Paragraphs 13 and 17 concern the future of the TAOs, the Technical Assistance Offices. As Mr Bourlanges rightly says, the measures produced by the European Commission do not satisfy our demands. I regret that Mrs Siimes’ reaction to the proposals made by rapporteur Bourlanges was one of slight disenchantment. The Council maintains that the European Parliament is proposing very far-reaching reforms and that it will not be possible to accommodate these in Budget 2000. Mrs Siimes, the citizens of Europe expect us to exercise robust and financially-transparent administration and it is therefore absolutely essential that we see to it that the Technical Assistance Offices are gradually disbanded. I would refer you to what Mr Elles has just had to say on the matter. And so it is my hope that the overtures we have made to you do not fall on deaf ears."@en1

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