Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-15-Speech-3-013"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Court of Auditors' annual report for 19992
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001115.1.3-013"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-15-Speech-3-0142
lpv:speaker	lp:Rijk van Dam2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 member; CONT (2000-07-03--2001-09-02)3 unknown; Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij - Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond - Reformatorisch Politieke Federatie (1999-07-20--2002-03-17)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Mr President of the Court of Auditors, in 1999, the Netherlands made the highest per capita contribution to EU coffers. As a representative of these net payers, however, I am really rather disappointed in the Commission’s performance. We could give this Commission the benefit of the doubt over the discharge for 1998 because it was saddled with the legacy of the ousted Commission. However, the present Commission has to answer for the 1999 annual report and, unfortunately, it lists a whole series of shortcomings in the Commission’s accounts. What concerns me is that the Commission evidently does not consider itself bound by the budget approved by Parliament. Firstly, the Commission has committed EUR 400 million more than we budgeted for, and secondly, it has modified the original budget and implemented a revised version without Parliament’s approval. In 1999, the Netherlands only received 3% of total agricultural subsidies, when proportionally, it should work out at around 5%. I do not begrudge the poorer EU countries a comparatively larger share of agricultural aid, but to me, this makes it all the more unpalatable that the majority of irregularities should have arisen in the payment of agricultural subsidies. I would be very interested to know which Member States have benefited the most from these irregularities. The number of irregularities in the structural funds payments warrants a thorough investigation into the way these funds operate and their effectiveness. Reforming the Commission is no guarantee that previously recorded irregularities will not arise in the future. Therefore, now and in the future, the Commission will be held to account for non-compliance with the rules."@en1

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