Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-23-Speech-2-202"

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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	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030923.5.2-202"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-23-Speech-2-2032
lpv:speaker	lp:Kyösti Virrankoski2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Keskusta (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, firstly I wish to thank Commissioners Schreyer and Kinnock for their successful reform of the Commission and the reshaping of the Financial Regulation connected with it. They create a basis for the clarification of personal accountability, taking responsibility and the creation of activity-based budgeting and management. This budget is in fact the first activity-based budget. How to improve activity-based management is a continual challenge. The objective must be that the different policy areas be given room for manoeuvre in creating the most efficient administrative structure possible. This means that in the future we can very likely abandon the practice where Parliament decides separately on the establishment of a post or changes to it. Parliament will only decide how much money is available in a particular administrative area. This may then itself decide on the creation of the most appropriate administrative structure. In the future, defining and bearing personal responsibility will be of key importance, because activity-based budgeting and management lead to the downward delegation of power of decision. As regards financial management, we have to be able to establish exactly what we require of the careful management of finances. Different organisations and NGOs make up their own areas of specialisation, which the European Parliament has given its support to. These ‘earmarked’ A-30 budget lines have been the budget’s bugbear. To be honest, access to them on the part of organisations has been on an arbitrary basis. Often the European dimension to these organisations has not been any better off than that of hundreds of other organisations that have been operating without support. Now a legal basis is being established for the system and the question of assistance is to be for the Commission to decide. This measure must be implemented as soon as possible."@en1

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