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dcterms:Date	"2012-11-22"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20121122.7.4-037-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-11-22-Speech-4-038-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Mulder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ALDE (2010-06-22--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2010-07-01--2014-06-30)3 member; CONT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2010-07-01--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (2010-06-22--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2010-07-01--2014-06-30)3 substitute; CRIM (2012-03-28--2013-10-23)3 member; BUDG (2012-07-05--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2012-07-05--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, first I would like to apologise to the President of the Court of Auditors and the Commissioner that I was not able to be present at the beginning of the debate. I had another important meeting. It has no doubt already been said in many ways by many others: it is the eighteenth time that the Court of Auditors has not given an unqualified statement of assurance. If Parliament nevertheless discharges the Commission of liability for the seventeenth time, this will be very difficult to defend in the eyes of the general public. I think that the Commission must come up with strong proposals to improve the controls. We have tried many things over the years: higher fines, stopping payments. I think we have tried all of the available options. There is only one thing that we have not tried yet, despite the fact that Parliament has been pressing for it for years. That is that if we give money to the Member States, there must be greater political accountability in the Member States that make the most errors. Parliament has tried all kinds of ways to get a Member State statement. These efforts resulted in the annual summaries, as they are called in the Interinstitutional Agreement. I ask myself whether they are effective; I think not. The new Financial Regulation enables Member States to make a statement voluntarily. I think that the Commission should pursue a very active policy to promote that. The Member States who do that should get obvious benefits as a result. If the European and national audit bodies judge everything to be in order, if their statement is good, the Commission should reward those countries with fewer audits, less bureaucracy, and so on. The Member States should gain from making a political statement on how they have spent the money from Europe."@en1
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