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"Since the European Court of Auditors found the 2010 accounts and expenditure of the European Railway Agency (ERA) to be reliable and legal, I granted discharge to the agency’s director through my vote. Whilst the legality of the expenditure has been ascertained, and whilst I fully share the ERA’s objective of making Europe’s railway network more interoperable, I do not think it is right that the agency should carry forward from one year to the next sums that have been allocated strictly for the implementation of its annual budget. The agency carried forward over EUR 5 million from the 2010 financial year to the 2011 financial year, having already acted in a similar way from 2008 to 2009. This practice, which goes against the principle of annual budgeting periods, must not become a habit and will no longer be tolerated at a time when public expenditure must be rationalised and set an example. It is essential that the ERA take on board the criticisms made by this House, which it had already made in 2010; otherwise, it risks the House exercising its powers as a budgetary authority to penalise it."@en1
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