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"Mr President, they are good reports we are debating today, but I am unable, for all that, to vote in favour of the reports as long as we have no guarantee that those who are to audit the accounts are being given all the information they need. The ombudsman is not entitled to receive full information; the Court of Auditors has complained that it is unable to obtain full information; in Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control, it is a permanent topic on the agenda; and our President, Mrs Theato, has severely criticised the new draft agreement between Parliament and the Commission, for the draft agreement will not give us the documents we are requesting, either. Let us reject it tomorrow. My personal experience of the Commission is of encountering a good deal of beating about the bush whenever I ask for information which ought to be available. Those who vote in favour of the draft agreement do not know how many committees and committee meetings they are approving. Nor do they know if there are any problems regarding the competence of any of the participants. Indeed, as a rule we do not know everyone involved in day-to-day legislation and in the administration of the now 800 billion being used. Nor do we know how much is being paid out to, for example, Danisco. As long as the Commission is not making the information available that the Court of Auditors and elected representatives are requesting, my group can be relied upon to vote against approving the accounts."@en1
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