Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-22-Speech-4-038-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-11-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation of the Court of Auditors’ annual report - 2011 (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20121122.7.4-038-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-11-22-Speech-4-039-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Oldřich Vlasák2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; REGI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Občanská demokratická strana (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Parliament's Bureau (2012-01-18--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; PECH (2012-01-31--2014-06-30)3 substitute; TRAN (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2012-01-18--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, anyone reading the European Court of Auditors’ annual report gets the feeling that someone somewhere has made a big mistake. According to the auditors, the budget is not credible, the error rate is high, controls are failing and individual programmes have such shortcomings that no added value can be demonstrated for the European Union. One of the areas where drawdown has been most criticised is regional policy. According to the auditors, 59 % of the operations assessed in this area are beset by errors. The most common error is contravention of the rules for the award of public contracts and inappropriate payments for projects. Indeed, this is where I see the main problem. The fact is that it is not that recipients of European funds are committing fraud or falsifying projects. Recipients simply do not know their way around the extremely complex rules and bureaucratic procedures. They often carry out work in good faith and subsequently find out that they had been barking up the wrong tree and undertaken work which was not allowed or that the Union flag on the facade was the wrong size and so they would have to return the money. The Court of Auditors recommends improving this area by issuing more instructions, closely monitoring the implementation of Union rules, exerting more control and enforcing penalties. This is the wrong way, however. The only way to make a radical reform of the bureaucratic rules is to simplify the whole process and strengthen the participation of end recipients in the projects to be implemented. We should then all be able to implement more simply projects which make sense to us, because they are not cheap."@en1
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