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Mr President, the EU has always shown itself to be in favour of the accession of a reunified Cyprus. In spite of diplomatic efforts, however, this has not been possible, given the unfavourable result of the referendum held in April 2004.
In order to avoid further isolation of Turkish Cypriot territory and to strengthen contacts between the two communities, the European Commission has tabled a proposal intended to establish an instrument for economic development for this community totalling EUR 259 million for the period 2004-2006.
In view of the fact that no political agreement on unified Cyprus’s accession to the EU has been reached, such funding has raised a number of issues of a legal and budgetary nature. There is, indeed, no heading allowing the direct award of Community funding to a Member State whose government does not have absolute authority over part of its territory. I should like to point out that the Republic of North Cyprus has not been recognised internationally and cannot therefore be deemed a state. This lack of budgetary basis implies that such funding can only be seen in parallel with draft amending budget No 10/2004.
As draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Budgets, I have analysed the Commission proposal before us. The Commission argues here that funding is intended to finance activities similar to those of pre-accession, which falls within the scope of category 7 of the budget. Without entering into the political aspects of the debate, I did agree, however, with the financial implications of this proposal on the Financial Perspectives, despite it not being entirely clear under which category this financial support would fall. I therefore deliberately left open the choice of the most suitable budgetary basis, a task that the Budgetary Authority must undertake once the Council has tabled its proposed text.
I could not finish this speech, Mr President, without drawing the attention of this House to the difficulties of having to express a financial opinion on a text of which the most important part has not in any way been the subject of a Council agreement. Thank you very much."@en1
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