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"We will make the kind of response to this problem that we have presented for the CLONG so far. Let me here make the point that we are not at the final conclusion, we have received the report from the Auditors and we are looking at what kind of conclusions we will draw in the Commission.
But we have indicated – and this reflects what the Auditors are saying – that there is a need to recover something around EUR 1 million. That recovery normally also leads to a stop in the funding of the recipient in question. This is normal procedure. I am faced with a situation where if I do not do this I would be acting in a manner which would in all probability be strongly criticised by the Court of Auditors and by this House.
I still remember the very loud applause I received at my hearing in the Committee on Development and Cooperation a year and a half ago when I said that I and this Commission would take the line of a zero tolerance policy relating to mismanagement and all these problems. Everybody agrees on that and what I am doing now is following normal procedures, to the extent that we have such a thing in the Commission. But here I am on clear ground. I am aware of the problem that Mrs Sauquillo has raised and we are doing everything we can to find a solution which will allow the substance of the cooperation with the NGO world to continue.
But if some sort of reconstruction is necessary, this is a phase they may have to go through. For the time being I am very careful not to stipulate what the outcome ought to be because it is very much in the hands of the owners of CLONG and the many different NGOs all over Europe. But we are not turning our backs on them and we expect and hope that future cooperation will be normal and fruitful."@en1
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