Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-26-Speech-4-048"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-11-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2008 (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091126.3.4-048"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-11-26-Speech-4-0492
lpv:speaker	lp:Sophie Auconie2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Nouveau Centre (2009-07-14--2013-05-26)3 member; REGI (2009-07-16--2011-04-05)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Court of Auditors’ report for 2008 concludes that there has been an overall improvement in terms of the legality and regularity of the European Union’s budgetary transactions. Nevertheless, it says that expenditure associated with cohesion policy is still problematic, since it contains the most errors. The funds available for cohesion policy represent nearly a third of the European budget. It is one of the most fundamental and also one of the most symbolic policies of European integration and of the principle of solidarity that is at the heart of it. As such, we need to be demanding and ensure that the procedures are applied properly. We do, however, need to take into account the specific characteristics of cohesion policy, which is widely decentralised and therefore managed by regional authorities in the Member States. The errors observed by the Court of Auditors are not a result of attempts to defraud on the part of the project promoters, but a result of the complexity of the conditions for eligibility. In my view, the solution is not, therefore, to make the procedures more cumbersome, but to simplify them, both at Community level and in the Member States. At Community level, simplification measures are under discussion in the Council and in Parliament. At national level, personally I am working towards simplifying French procedures, in close cooperation with elected representatives and national and local decision makers. In this period of economic slowdown, it would be particularly unfortunate for project promoters, of which there are still many, to have difficulty accessing the European funding available to them."@en1
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