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"Mr President, our proposal for the new Financial Regulation was presented in May 2010, with the intention of agreeing on the rules of how to spend before discussing the volumes for the next financial perspective.
First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to the rapporteurs, Ingeborg Gräßle and Mr Rivellini, for their report on this very complex and technically very difficult dossier. I appreciate your patience in handling the issue for more than one-and-a-half years.
As for the guiding principles of our proposal, they are all very much present in what is to be voted on today. By that I mean three guiding principles: simplification, pooling of resources and more accountability. Regarding simplification, this was a clear request from everybody who was present at last week’s conference, with so many stakeholders asking for the lives of the beneficiaries of our grants and funds to be made easier. Therefore, in response, we are facilitating simplification via the use of lump sums and other instruments, making it possible for the Commission to assess and determine ex ante the amounts necessary for achieving the project. That is a step towards an outward-oriented philosophy and approach in grants and also in prices. The Commission also has the same response to the overall criticism of the rules concerning recovering interest on pre-financing, which should not be due to the Union.
However, there are two parts
Inge, to this simplification procedure. On the one hand there are beneficiaries and on the other the Commission, which is managing the budget and requesting some flexibility in the management of a budget in terms of the choice of implementing partners and not direct management. If we overburden the Commission, this also slows down the procedure and payments to the final beneficiaries. If we overburden the Commission with more reporting at a time when we are asking for a reduction of 5% in the Commission’s human resources in the coming years, this also includes the burden of reporting, which is not in line with what we see as the essential savings in the administration of the European Union.
The same goes for transfers and buildings, where we have amendments which we cannot support because they represent a step backwards in relation to the transition rules agreed for implementation of the Lisbon strategy.
Regarding delegated acts, this is an issue of respecting the Common Understanding on Delegated Acts. I do not think the Financial Regulation is the place to settle the horizontal interinstitutional issues, but we very much welcome Parliament’s support in the area of management declarations of assurance. Now we have on the table more or less the whole picture not only of financial regulation but also regulations on cohesion and agriculture, which are the biggest areas of spending, with clear management responsibilities on the part of the Member States. We welcome the support for trust funds, making the visibility of the European Union, as the greatest donor worldwide, visible. This is simply for visibility.
As for the financial instruments which are to be standard tools in the future – not exceptional but standard, and considerably upgraded. In response to Mr Rivellini’s question, this is mainly to leverage private investment in the area of trans-European networks in energy, transport and research and development already tested. But it must longer be exceptional if we are to close the gap in transport networks in Europe. I estimate that it must be up to EUR 200 billion, with even more in energy. We have to leverage the euros spent from the European budget, and this is why we should not be limited as to the flexibility and cooperation of the European Investment Bank and the other institutions in leveraging the budget via private investment.
Finally, we are an honest broker for the final political agreement. I think we should make the Financial Regulation a coherent point of reference in establishing all sorts of rules for the future. We hope that we are much nearer to this goal."@en1
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