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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2005 draft general budget, modified by the Council (all sections)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041214.12.2-176"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-14-Speech-2-1772
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, as the representative of my political group, I have been following the budget debate in the Committee on Budgets since the spring. I am sure that both rapporteurs have done their very best, but, despite that, my group is proposing the budget be rejected for the reasons of policy that our Chairman, Francis Wurtz, mentioned at the start of the sitting. The problem from Parliament’s point of view is budgetary discipline, which does not recognise flexibility to any adequate extent. Stringent budgetary discipline is supplemented by an interinstitutional agreement, which was smuggled through the European Parliament in May, 1999. The previous Parliament was unable, as is the current one, to have an influence on the ceilings for appropriations determined in the interinstitutional agreement. The only way to create more flexibility would have been to terminate the interinstitutional agreement that came about in such strange circumstances, but Parliament has not been prepared to do that, in spite of the fact that the inflexibility of the budget has been common knowledge. This lack of flexibility is in the Council’s interests, but not Parliament’s. I would, however, like to thank the Chairman of the Committee on Budgets, and the rapporteurs and coordinators, for their excellent levels of cooperation, even though my group has decided to propose that the budget be rejected."@en1

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