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Mr President, as a member of the Committee on Budgets, I would like to express our satisfaction at the reinforcement of the Common Foreign and Security Policy chapter with almost EUR 1 800 million for the period 2007-2013, which almost triples the funding for the previous seven years.
However, we consider that, for precisely this reason, this positive development needs to be accompanied by strengthened measures for parliamentary control and improved cooperation between our committee and the Council, as provided for in Article 28 of the Treaty on European Union. Consequently, I am obliged to condemn this evening’s unwarranted absence of the Council, which sends us a very negative message.
Our position is clear; we cannot accept annual reports from the Council limited solely to an ex-post description of CFSP activities. With the signature of the new interinstitutional agreement, the moment has now come for the Council to give us information before it takes its final decisions.
Such substantial financial information was only given to us recently for Kosovo by the competent German ambassador and I must welcome the initiative of the ambassador in question, in the hope that this improvement will now continue on a regular basis.
Two other points: we are worried that it has so far been almost impossible to assess so-called ‘mixed CFSP actions’ entailing expenditure resulting from both civilian actions and actions with military and defence implications and, secondly, I wish to emphasise that we consider it necessary for the European Union Special Representatives to fall under the CFSP budget and, therefore, that there is a need to establish criteria for their appointment and evaluation."@en1
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