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Mr President, I should like, first of all, to thank all the speakers for their contributions to this debate and to emphasise the political visibility given to this issue by the Spanish Presidency, which created a momentum which, I feel sure, will be maintained by the current Danish Presidency, during which I hope that the framework decision on the trafficking of women and children for the purpose of sexual exploitation will finally be approved by the Council. We are extremely close to achieving this approval and I hope that it will be formalised during this presidency.
The only substantial answer that I should like to give at the moment concerns funding. I believe that it is sometimes tempting to think that, when an activity is eligible for Community funding, Community monies can be a replacement for national funding. In reality, however, the rules of our conception state that Community funding is additional to national funding in a task of this scale and of this political importance. Hence the importance that the Commission attaches to the public authorities of the Member States also being able to apply for the Daphne programme, because this would create a situation that encourages the Member States themselves to participate in projects and to invest financial means in combating violence against women and children.
There is one problem, however, that I do not wish to ignore: the issue of the debate on funding is very closely related to that of the legal base. A clear, explicit and solid legal base in the Treaty would provide another lever for the funding of a project of this nature. As long as we have to work within the scope of Article 152 we shall continue to have problems. I sincerely hope that, with this debate, we might reach agreement on the joint efforts to be developed in the Convention so that the future Constitutional Treaty of the European Union enshrines the fight against violence towards women and children as an objective of the Treaty on European Union itself."@en1
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