Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-21-Speech-4-013"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-11-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EIB Annual Report (2001)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021121.1.4-013"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-11-21-Speech-4-0142
lpv:speaker	lp:Jonas Sjöstedt2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vänsterpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-03-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I want to say a few words about the opinion of the Committee on Budgetary Control regarding this report. My committee and I are grateful for the fact that the rapporteur and the committee responsible have chosen to take on board so many of the views we have presented. Thank you very much. The European Investment Bank has for many years been one of the EU’s more anonymous powers that be. At the same time, the EIB has very great influence by virtue of the extensive loans both to the Member States and to the candidate countries. It would be sensible to have a more comprehensive political debate on the bank’s approach and also more comprehensive scrutiny of the bank’s activities on the part of the other EU institutions. The reason for the European Investment Bank’s having been a fairly anonymous wielder of power in the EU is no doubt the special status of this body. It is a bank which, moreover, is basically owned by the Member States, at the same time as being a part of the European Union. We suggest, partly by means of the following proposals, that it be scrutinised more carefully. We wish to increase the Court of Auditors’ access to information from the European Investment Bank. In the long run, this access to information should be similar to the access that exists to information from the European Central Bank. This is something that can be brought about through the tripartite agreement, which is subject to future review. We should like to see increased cooperation between our committee, the Committee on Budgetary Control and the European Investment Bank. It should, for example, be possible to welcome the chairman of the bank to our meetings. We should also like to acquaint ourselves with more documents concerning the European Investment Bank’s internal audit. We should like to see the environmental dimension strengthened through the EIB’s incorporating the Århus Convention and the obligations under it into its policy. We are concerned here with public access to environmental information. In a year or so, we should also like to see a progress report made on the task taken on in Gothenburg concerning impact on climate change. Finally, I just want to add that there is a need to evaluate the system of global loans which is at present a little too vaguely defined. A thorough evaluation needs to be made of the actual impact of the loans."@en1

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