Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-28-Speech-3-142"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2001 discharge: Committee of the Regions2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040128.11.3-142"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-28-Speech-3-1432
lpv:speaker	lp:Herbert Bösch2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; CONT (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think it is permissible, in the context of Mrs Avilés Perea’s report, to pay tribute to one’s own committee for once. I believe that we were very prompt in our response as soon as justified doubts arose – to which previous speakers have already made reference – about the way in which the Committee of the Regions managed public funds. I think it is important to make this point for once in this House. We have a Committee on Budgetary Control, and it is sensitive and flexible enough to exercise its responsibility within a matter of hours. I do not believe that any problems were caused by the decision to postpone discharge for the Committee of the Regions as a result of the concerns addressed to us. Indeed, I believe it showed that occasionally, there are small institutions within the European Union – so-called small institutions, although our taxpayers would probably take a different view – which might have a budget of EUR 30 million, where the members turn up once every few months and perhaps deliver an important speech before a plenary, and where otherwise, there is a great temptation to indulge in petty empire-building within the European Community. I am most grateful to the President and his staff at the Committee of the Regions for having drawn the right conclusions from our comments, but I think it will be a lesson for us in other cases as well. I endorse the comments made by the previous speakers, and will gladly vote for Mrs Avilés Perea’s report."@en1

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