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"I support the agreement that any new system should involve eliminating the present compensation mechanisms, financing of the budget by the Member States in accordance with uniform criteria and shaping own resources in a transparent and democratic manner.
The own resources system has undergone many changes of fortune – and has even been blocked at times – largely as a function of trends in traditional own resources, that is to say customs duties and agricultural levies, which have fallen. However, a fourth own resource was introduced in 1988, in addition to VAT, namely the resource based on GNP or gross national product. In view of this, I believe that it is now possible to provide for a more transparent system. Furthermore, the Commission itself has proposed simplifying the financing structure so as to create a system based more on GNP contributions, and has at the same time recommended the gradual elimination of correction mechanisms.
I consider the intention to carry out reform and the declaration of the principles of transparency to be important. However, I am still waiting for the proposals promised by the Commission, and for that reason, because of doubts I have about the impact of adopting, or not, a single own resource – in particular the implied inevitability that there will eventually be a European tax – I feel obliged to abstain."@en1
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