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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Vice-President of the Commission, of course, I too would like to thank the rapporteur for her valuable contribution. I would also like to say that the committee of which I am chairman has discussed the matter in depth with its usual skill and has put a tremendous amount of effort into finding solutions for both present and future situations.
This is the first progress report on the second report on cohesion, which has come just a few weeks before the second progress report and a few months before the third report on cohesion, which, as has already been said, will be the decisive report.
What is the backdrop to the debate? The first point concerns the current programming period. There has been a great deal of discussion in recent days on the need for expenditure and simplification. These are recurring themes which must serve as some kind of warning for the future too, and by the future I mean the 2007-2013 programming period, the crucial time for the accession of a further 10, then to be 12 countries.
There are many problems and areas of concern, and I would like to mention one which is of particular interest to me. A few days ago, in Brussels, the Commission organised an extremely interesting meeting on the mountain regions. For those mountain regions which will not be covered by Objective 1, there is a possibility that a specific fund can be set up on the basis of the concept contained in the second report on cohesion of regions which suffer from permanent geographical or natural handicaps. These would include mountain regions, remote islands and sparsely populated regions. In addition to providing more funds for these regions, this would also introduce rules which are fairer than competition rules."@en1
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