Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-24-Speech-2-205"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
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.20020924.10.2-205"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-24-Speech-2-2062
lpv:speaker	lp:Christopher Heaton-harris2
lpv:spoken text	". – Mr President, I have basically left it open to all members of the Budgetary Control Committee to suggest amendments in the sectors that they tend to cover. Mr Bösch has tabled a number of amendments from the point of view of a critical friend, regarding OLAF, the Anti-Fraud Office. We are now beginning to see the problems of the office not being completely independent of the Commission. Accordingly, Mr Bösch's amendments which have been adopted by the committee include questioning the mission expenses of OLAF, questioning their information and communication measures – having received a reasonable amount of money for this purpose, the office put out less than twelve press releases in both 2000 and 2001 – and indeed questioning both the Commission and OLAF over a cut. The PDB actually cut the budget for OLAF by a substantial figure and we had no answers as to why that money had been cut. The committee has reinstated the money cut, but has put this money into the reserve pending the answers from both those institutions. The committee has also taken a strong view on export refunds. There are many experts on export refunds on the committee. I am definitely not one of those, but essentially the amendments aim for transparency and to help people like me understand the purpose, scope, cost and implementation of export refunds. Other amendments include those on the Economic and Social Committee, cutting funds to reduce its dependence on external experts, increasing appropriations for the measures to combat counterfeiting of the euro – something I as a British Conservative have some trepidation in suggesting – and reinstating part of a cut in budget line B1-361 which seeks to improve monitoring and preventative measures in candidate countries concerning agriculture budgets. Those are the amendments that the Budgetary Control Committee has submitted."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3,3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; BUDG (2002-02-04--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Heaton-Harris (PPE-DE ),"1 "draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Budgetary Control"1

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