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". – Mr President, we on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy this year can generally welcome the progress that has been made so far in formulating the budget for next year. Looking back historically, we are doing a better job every year and this is certainly due partly to the work done by the rapporteurs. Things are going along much more smoothly than they were, despite the fact that we are considerably squeezed for money because of external demands upon our budget. Nevertheless, I am pleased to see that the Committee on Budgets has supported the view of Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy in restoring some of the budget lines which we are particularly concerned with, at least to the level of the PDB.
Also, it is worth mentioning that we look with approval upon the work that was done in terms of the amendments tabled by the Committee on Budgets with regard to the tobacco subsidies. They urge the Council to take a good look at this. We urge the Commission to take a good look at this. We know something must be done. I am pleased that the Committee on Budgets acknowledges this. Its proposals for a gradual reduction over a period of time of that subsidy make sense, and it is time the Council and the Commission started talking about this issue.
One particular success is on the issue of the budget line associated with the approval of orphan drugs by the medicines agency. I am very pleased the Committee on Budgets has accepted our point of view and I hope the Commission does as well. This has been a very successful budget line since created last year together with the SAB procedure. We were concerned about what the Council wanted to do in terms of the massive cut it demanded in that line, which was completely unjustified. We are pleased about the restoration to an appropriate level of that budget line and we hope the Commission will also defend that point of view to the Council. This is a budget line which does genuinely good work for the people of Europe and brings real and genuine benefits and it must be protected.
Finally, I would say that we have some concerns about the way in which the agencies have been handled. I can fully understand why money must go into the reserve and I can fully understand why there is increasing concern about the way the agencies operate, but we need to give them the appropriate resources to do their job and that particularly applies in the case of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy."@en1
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