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"Mr President, I was pleased to note that we all want both transparency and control: we all want the EU’s money contributed by taxpaying citizens to be protected and to go to those who are genuinely entitled to assistance. Where there are irregularities or illegalities the specified sanctions must be imposed and I think that on this point we are all united and determined. It goes without saying, however, that the proposed measures ought to be put into force after the relevant regulation has been passed and ought to relate to the following financial year. We believe that this clarification is absolutely necessary, and that is why we have tabled the relevant amendment. We want this amendment to make it clear that the measures for suspending monthly payments laid down in Articles 17a and 27a of Regulation No 1290/2005, concerning the funding of the common agricultural policy, will not be implemented before 16 October 2008. Thus we believe it right that the measures should not have retroactive force.
To conclude, let me emphasise that we all want:
firstly, protection of taxpayers’ money;
secondly, the money to go to those who are genuinely entitled, as my fellow Member very rightly pointed out;
thirdly, lawbreakers to be punished;
fourthly, let us be fair, as happens throughout the world; the laws do not have retroactive force, nor should they.
If these conditions are met, we will wholeheartedly and gladly endorse and vote for the report by Mr Chatzimarkakis."@en1
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