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Mr President, the Commission congratulates the European Parliament on such a positive contribution to cohesion policy which is essential for the building and integration of Europe.
I would like to thank Mrs Schroedter on behalf of the Commission for the report she has compiled. Her report represents a very important contribution to the debate on the future of cohesion policy. This debate began in January 2001 with the adoption of the second report on cohesion drawn up by Mr Barnier. It is essential that, in view of the Commission’s preparation of proposals on the future of this policy, we should work towards establishing a consensus between the different institutions involved, as the rapporteur has just explained.
The Commission will respond to the different issues the honourable Member mentioned within the framework of the second progress report on cohesion. This report will be adopted by the Commission at the beginning of 2003. We will include a more specific and in-depth response to these same issues in the third report on cohesion we are scheduled to present at the end of next year.
I would like to remind you that the Commission has already promised to include proposed priorities which should form the basis for the policy from 2007 to 2013 in the third report on cohesion to be put before Parliament and the Council. We have also promised to propose a new system for the organisation and management of the policy in the same report.
We want to put a joint proposal on the table, one that responds adequately to the key issues already raised by the House concerning the European Union´s response to the future of the economic and social problems of both present and future Member States.
As regards consistency across different Community policies, the current review of governance has already yielded a number of possible courses of action that the Commission will be sure to take into account when preparing future policies.
The challenges of enlargement are certainly not limited only to discussions on decision-making procedures or the distribution of competencies. Policies on these issues should also provide for the greater diversity and greater imbalance among the different areas which will constitute the future European Union. In addition, policies should set out the precise contribution to be made by Member States to the economic and social cohesion of the European Union as a whole, and its effects, albeit in purely statistical terms. This will have to be taken into account. Regions that are currently poor will not become richer just because some new arrivals are poorer. The poor regions will simply be less poor than some of those due to become part of the European Union."@en1
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