Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-24-Speech-2-193"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:General debate on the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 20032
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020924.10.2-193"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-24-Speech-2-1942
lpv:speaker	lp:Nielson2
lpv:spoken text	". – Mr President, my reluctance to answer is based on the fact that we do not have a figure. If we look at what it took to get a seat in the first year, following the establishment of the Fund, the mathematics tell us that it was around EUR 84 million, but the United States says that it is paying for about four seats. We would not like to see a larger Health Fund board. That would not be efficient. Other actors are trying to get seats on that board, so there is some pressure. As you know, we came up with EUR 120 million for the first year. The actual use of that money and the overall availability of funds compared to the actual spending in the first year makes for a very open discussion as to the actual funding need for the coming year. It is against this background that the Commission finds it advisable not to come up with a figure today. We want to have a picture of what other donors are doing to make sure that we feed money into the fund in a prudent manner to make it work as expected, but also to maximise value for money whatever we do in this area as a whole. We do not have a figure right now. Also, we are not under pressure at this stage to clarify all the details of how we find the money, so we advise waiting a little. That is why you do not have a clear answer."@en1
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