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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Presidency listened with particular interest to the presentation by the Vice President, Mrs De Palacio, of the Commission’s annual policy strategy for 2003, which is the first phase of the cycle of planning and programming of the priorities set by the Commission. The idea is not only to identify those priorities but also to analyse the best way of rationally using the financial and human resources of the Union.
I think it is particularly satisfactory that the priorities identified by the Commission, such as enlargement, stability and security, and a sustainable and socially inclusive economy, are very much in line with those that the Presidency itself and the European Union as a whole have defined and which have been confirmed by the European Council in Barcelona, about which the President-in-Office of the Council, the President of the Spanish Government, has just informed this House. The Presidency welcomes the Commission’s intention to enter into dialogue on the strategy presented, in which the budgetary implications will have to be a fundamental element. There will therefore have to be careful preparation in order to link the debate on the strategic priorities with the budgetary procedure for 2003.
The Council has already had some exchanges of opinion and considers that the General Affairs Council in May could include on its agenda an initial political debate on the Commission’s strategic priorities for 2003. In this way the budgetary aspects, which in the Presidency’s opinion should include the implications that enlargement could have in terms of expenditure such as the need for premises, could be analysed at the most appropriate time within the general framework of the budgetary procedure.
The Presidency is not ruling out the first political debate on the Commission’s strategy being followed, during next autumn, under the Danish Presidency, by a fresh discussion closer to the time when the decision will be taken on the Union budget.
Mr President, the Presidency would like to repeat that it is prepared to support the strategic priorities proposed by the Commission and to look in detail at their budgetary implications at the appropriate time."@en1
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