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"We have voted today in favour of Mr Bösch’s report on the more effective combating of fraud and irregularities involving EU resources. Even though there was a slight decline in fraud and irregularities between 1997 and 1998, there is still a great need for more effective supervisory mechanisms. Mr Kinnock’s reform plan is, on the whole, both visionary and realistic. There are, however, a few sticking points.
Parliament has already proposed, in the Van Hulten report, that an external court should be established under the aegis of the Court of Auditors, part of whose task would be to deal with disciplinary matters and which would help recover money which had been paid out wrongly. If such a body were to be established, this would mean that disciplinary procedures would be taken away from the Commission. We have had a lot of bad experiences with the internal disciplinary council. At present, officials who have had actions brought against them by the disciplinary council have colleagues of theirs sitting in judgement over them. That is indefensible. Both the ECHO and MED cases are all too well-known examples of this state of affairs.
We ought likewise to criticise the proposal in the white paper to the effect that an advisory panel should be set up to deal with irregularities. We have established OLAF to deal with suspicions of fraud and irregularities. Another panel would serve only to undermine OLAF’s powers. We have voted against establishing a European public prosecutor’s office. It would be a colossal enterprise to set up when the problem, in reality, lies elsewhere. In actual fact, there is more need for a fundamental staffing reform.
It is, for all that, only the most serious cases which will have penal consequences. Ninety per cent of cases will be disciplinary matters concerning negligence or incompetence. Instead, there is a need for public, internal supervision and for more leeway when it comes to sacking people. We need changes to staff regulations and to the disciplinary procedure, as also proposed in the report."@en1
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