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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Annual Report of the Court of Auditors2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991213.4.1-096"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-13-Speech-1-0972
lpv:speaker	lp:Herbert Bösch2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (1999-09-16--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; CONT (1999-07-21--2001-12-11)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, first of all I am glad that we have the opportunity today to debate the contents of the Court of Auditors' Annual Report. I should like to make just a few brief comments on this. Firstly, how did the new European Commission react to this Court of Auditors' report? I have read that it is reasonably happy with the fact that the situation is not said to be visibly worse than it was in 1997. For a new Commission this seems to me to be alarming and a sign that it is moving in the wrong direction. It would suggest that nothing has been learnt from the mistakes of the past. Secondly, in my view, this report lacks a certain clarity and simplicity of expression, President Karlsson. What are the people of the Union supposed to make of your statement that where internal policies are concerned, one third of payments contain substantial errors? I expect clearer position statements in future Commission discharge procedures and also in future Court of Auditors' reports, not least because, firstly, internal policies are the sole responsibility of the Commission and secondly, we know that this House is particularly interested in internal policies. In future discharge procedures, we will have to be able to ascertain, on the basis of this report, that the lessons of the past have actually been learned in the Commission. The initial reactions to this report were disappointing in this respect, but of course, it is always possible to do better and this is what we are all called upon to do together."@en1

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