Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-23-Speech-2-197"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation by the Council of draft general budget - 20042
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030923.5.2-197"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-23-Speech-2-1982
lpv:speaker	lp:Christopher Heaton-harris2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am delighted to speak to the House - and in public - as a member of the gagged and muzzled committee of this Parliament which has been unable to conduct its business properly because of a decision by the Conference of Presidents about interviewing Mr Prodi on one of the subjects I will be raising shortly. Following the normal practice within my committee, this year I have used the matters that we found during our discharge procedure to draw some budgetary amendments to get what the Committee on Budgetary Control would like to see from the Commission and other institutions. It breaks down into three different areas, two are related and will be touched on later, and the other is the Committee of the Regions. We have yet to grant discharge to this committee for the 2001 set of accounts and, as more revelations appear about the state of its accounts and what has been going on within that committee, it is highly unlikely that we will do so. Therefore we have tabled an amendment asking for 25% of members' allowances within the Committee of the Regions to go into the reserve until the rapporteur provides us with much of the information we have requested. The main point concerns Eurostat and OLAF. We have tabled an amendment asking for a significant sum of money to be placed in the reserve for OLAF. This achieved near-unanimity in the committee, because we have been unhappy with the way OLAF has been reporting to the budgetary authority, in many cases contravening its own rules. Finally, I turn to Eurostat. We are very concerned about some of its activities and the way in which the Commission is dealing with it. We have tabled a number of amendments and, when it comes to the main budget debate, more amendments - that we shall be pushing on behalf of our committee - may be tabled by the political groups, because it is about time that someone took responsibility for the problems within Eurostat."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-02-04--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Heaton-Harris (PPE-DE )."1

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