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". – Mr President, one of the clear messages from this report today is the need to introduce procedures which will simplify the Structural Funds payments regime in Europe.
It is also important that the European Commission strictly adheres to enforcing the principle of additionality through uniform verification methods. That is the view of the Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism Committee of this Parliament. The committee believes that it is important to speed up the introduction of all the streamlining measures needed to improve the quality of Structural Fund spending in Europe.
If EU Structural Funds are going to be applied for the desired purpose, namely to improve the economic and social cohesion of different regions, then these monies must be spent as additional financial resources. If the principle of additionality is not rigorously enforced and independently verified, it makes it very difficult for European Union institutions and national EU governments to ensure that the competitive position of those regions most in need is improved. I welcome the introduction of activity-based budgeting, and the setting of clear and measurable objectives will greatly aid the budgetary process. We all agree that the EU budget must be framed in such a way as to meet its objectives. I am concerned that, whereas the rate of appropriations from the Community budget for trans-European networks in the field of transport measures continues to be at a satisfactory level, a number of Member States have failed to advance the necessary monies for these TENs projects.
On a broader budgetary matter, I welcome the fact that under the 2004 budget Parliament's Committee on Budgets supports the following measures: the need to increase rural development aid measures under the EU common agricultural policy; the need to guarantee the safety of food products, both from within the territories of the Union and from third countries; greater co-ordination of security measures at the EU's external borders and improved EU immigration and asylum policies; and promotion of an EU media space to disseminate information on the workings of the European Union and raise public awareness of the impact of European Union legislation on the day-to-day lives of the citizens of Europe."@en1
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"draftsman of the Opinion of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism"1
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