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"Mr President, the Commission’s preliminary draft budget contains few surprises when it comes to those issues that fall within the area of responsibility of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. We therefore support its main features and have also clearly expressed our support for the amounts proposed by the Commission. I nonetheless wish to make a few comments and recommendations.
Those measures that are supported within the framework of budget line 02 05 01 (‘Industrial competitiveness policy for the European Union’) – for example, for the purpose of analysing the effect of the information society on competitiveness and of stimulating the development of electronic trade – involve no genuine European added value and should therefore be discontinued. We therefore propose that these appropriations be transferred to budget line 02 02 03 (‘Programme for enterprise and entrepreneurship, particularly for SMEs’), where the funds could be of direct use to European businesses.
We are also concerned about the problems and irregularities in connection with Eurostat and therefore want the European Parliament to ask for 25% of the appropriations to Eurostat’s administrative expenditure to be placed in Title 31 (‘Reserves’) until the Commission has given Parliament sufficient assurance that the problems have been solved and that the people responsible have been identified and appropriately penalised.
We also support the information campaign concerning the euro and welcome the fact that the Commission has proposed increases in the funding for this. These extra resources will be needed, given that the EU is to acquire ten new Member States that have all undertaken to introduce the euro as soon as possible. We are nonetheless still concerned about the implementation of this budget line in recent years and therefore want again to call upon the Commission to report each quarter to Parliament’s relevant committee on the implementation of the programme in the current year and on the planning for next year.
We also want to call upon the Commission to ensure that additional funds for the information campaign concerning the euro are available if further needs should arise, for example as a consequence of referendums in any of those countries that do not at present have the euro. As an aside, I regret that, following the result of the referendum last week, my own country, Sweden, will not be eligible for funds for the information campaign concerning the euro.
The committee nonetheless supports the Commission’s draft budget, but with the reservations I have expressed."@en1
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