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"Madam President, the debate clearly shows that shared management is still one of the main topics also for this year’s budgetary discharge procedure. But there remain issues for the funds under direct management by the Commission.
I can assure you that the Commission will carefully analyse the Court’s observations and that it will implement its recommendations in due course. The work has already started and I would like to draw your attention to the annual activity reports of directors-general of the Commission which for the first time in their history almost completely correspond with the assessment of the Court and on the basis of those annual activity reports and on the basis of reservations made by the Director-General of AGRI, the Director-General of Research and other directors-general, they have to produce concrete action plans on how to improve the situation in the areas under their management.
I believe that my colleagues, Commissioner Cioloş, Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner Hahn and others will participate in the discharge procedure and will explain what concrete actions they will implement in order to address the problems reflected in the reservations of their directors-general. I would like also to draw your attention to one aspect, which is that when we talk about complicated rules it is not only complicated rules at an EU level; and as I said in my introductory statement, we made proposals for the next financial period to significantly simplify EU rules. It is also very problematic that Member States introduce even more complicated rules and quite a significant amount of errors are caused by complicated rules at Member State level. This issue, I believe, has to be addressed very thoroughly.
Bart Staes raised the issue of own resources and VAT fraud and the Commission is working very hard on this subject and we tabled a proposal on a fast reaction mechanism. We are looking forward to a swift adoption of this proposal by the Council which will significantly reduce the risk of fraud on VAT and next month I will come with a package of proposals on how to fight tax fraud and evasion, including measures on further improvements in the VAT area. I hope that these measures will provide sufficient tools in order to improve the situation in the area of VAT collection.
The rapporteur also mentioned the issues related to net corrections and I think that it is very important that the legislation which is currently on the table includes the net corrections for the next financial programming period and as I understand it we are moving in this direction. I hope that finally legislation will be adopted containing this very important provision.
I count on your support during this discharge procedure and expect close cooperation with the Council Presidencies to ensure that issues highlighted in this discharge procedure will be given the necessary attention by the Member States."@en1
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