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"Mr President, on behalf of the Environment Committee, I would like to add a few final words before the Commissioner sums up. We have watched with interest the development of the budgetary process so far and we thank the two rapporteurs who have produced a good report along the right lines. But I want to emphasise some issues and I hope Mrs Schreyer will take them up and endeavour to ensure that they are pushed through the Commission.
First, we have long called upon the Commission to do more with regard to greening the budget. The area of agriculture remains largely untouched and much more work needs to be done on greening the Structural Funds and other areas of the Commission's activity. We would look for a fresh initiative from the Commission on this. Make sure the money is properly spent in a sustainable way.
With regard to the spending of money external to the Union, particularly in Eastern and Central Europe, we would hope that the Commission will focus its efforts, particularly through the Phare Programme and other projects guaranteeing the implementation and enforcement of European Union legislation. These countries have signed up to the
and we expect them to satisfy its requirements before they enter the Union. We cannot compromise on environmental standards in those areas. I hope that monies will be directed towards ensuring that.
As regards public health, an area of competence that was enlarged during the Amsterdam Treaty and is currently undergoing reform, we would hope that the outcome of that reform will be an enlarged programme on public health issues and that the Commission will accept that and find the necessary funding – which inevitably will mean more than they are spending now. Whilst the legal justification for action in the area of public health is clear, it seems to me that there is still a lack of clarity with regard to the legal basis for action by the Commission in some other areas. I would ask the Commission to renew its efforts to clarify the legal basis for some areas of action in the field of the environment.
There are two other important issues which I want to bring to the attention of the Commission. First, there is an ongoing confusion about the funding of certain NGOs and the monies provided by the Commission for their funding. Please get this sorted out. Finally, we have long argued in this Parliament about the problem of the subsidy on tobacco production in southern Europe and the other issues related to tobacco production. We need a new initiative from the Commission on this. It is time to break the deadlock. The continued spending of money in that way is unacceptable. I hope the Commission has heard what we say."@en1
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