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dcterms:Date	"2001-11-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report – 20002
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20011113.2.2-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-11-13-Speech-2-0272
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	"Honourable Members of the Court of Auditors, Mr Karlsson, Mrs Schreyer, on behalf of my group, I should naturally like to echo the words of thanks which my fellow MEPs have already expressed. I have started to wade through this tome. I have to admit that this 24th Annual Report seems superior and that more names are included than before. In other words, this Annual Report is simply a better read, it has to be said. It also becomes clear that you are sending out a message, namely an urgent request for simplifying legislation. Indeed, if legislation were simplified, fewer mistakes would be made, fewer irregularities would occur and this would probably result in less fraud. When I read what was happening with the own resources and when I saw the results of the database, which gives an overview of all cases of fraud and irregularities established since 1996, amounting to EUR 1.5 billion, I appreciated the significance of what we are doing. On the basis of the Court of Auditors report, the OLAF reports, the work carried out by the rapporteurs and also our own studies, we will need to explain to the European taxpayers how their money is being spent. I am delighted with the fact that the Annual Report devotes much attention to the role of the Member States. Indeed, they do not sufficiently inspect the Community programmes which they manage in conjunction with the Commission. Neither do they fight fraud satisfactorily when they collect their revenue. The VAT carrousels are a prime example of this. Finally, as Mrs Morgan has already stated, the Member States fail to implement legislation adequately. In this connection, I should once again like to haul my own country over the coals. In the Blak report, Belgium was attacked for not yet having ratified the 1995 agreement. I have exchanged correspondence in this respect with the President of the Belgian Parliament, and four months ago, I was promised that this agreement would be ratified during the Belgian Presidency. That has not been done to date. That is an outright scandal, and I am grateful to the Court of Auditors for once again giving us the necessary ammunition today to ensure that the Belgian government and the Belgian Parliament carry out their tasks at long last. It is a disgrace which we must continue to denounce in public."@en1

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