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"Madam President, as rapporteur for the report on protecting the financial interests of the European Union, I certainly welcome the Court of Auditors’ Annual Report. As colleagues have heard already, the annual rate estimated is 3.9 %, however, I do think there are some other things which need to be said as well. For example, I think it is important that the Court has pointed out that there is a difference between error and fraud. Only about 0.2 % of payments are subject to fraud.
I think the Court of Auditors perhaps needs to look at its systems and methods here. For example, overpayments and underpayments are categorised in exactly the same way, minor errors in terms of providing information and filling in documents are also classified as errors. I just wondered if in future the Court might find it possible to make a distinction between those different types of things.
I also think it is important that, for the first time, the Court, in Chapter 10, has started to look at the improvement assessment of the Commission as well. I know the Court says that this does need to be improved. I think it is a good start, because I think part of the Court’s function should be to look for improvement. I think, indeed, we all need to look for improvements, whether in the Court, in Parliament, in Member States or in the Commission – improvements in terms of the procurement policy, in terms of simplification, maybe having a more risk-based audit in the future: these are all things which can lead to improvement. At the end of the day audits are good, but audits should also lead to improvements in our systems."@en1
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