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"Mr President, with the Council’s reading we are now in the decisive phase of the annual procedure but this is by no means the routine procedure as we are, for the first time, under the Lisbon Treaty and the hot budgetary season is arriving.
As for the conclusions, I would ask both arms of the budgetary authority to take carefully into consideration the concerns I expressed in negotiating the final multidimensional agreement and not to only consider the figures for 2011.
As usual, we in the Commission are ready to serve as an honest broker seeking, as an intermediary, to play a constructive role to achieve a good conclusion for 2011.
At our last trialogue, not much was agreed, not much has moved forward, but at least what was agreed were the dates and modalities for the functioning of the conciliation committee in 2010. So now the calendar is set, Council’s reading is over, Parliament is to take its position by 20 October and the Commission will continue to attentively follow the emerging views and sensitivities of both arms of the budgetary authority.
But, next to the budget – and this is very important – on the agenda, we still have a whole package of adjustments to the Lisbon Treaty. Therefore, it requires real good will from both sides to agree, because this time there is a wide range of difficult things to solve on the negotiating table for November, so the November conciliation will be multidimensional.
On the substance, as mentioned by the Minister, there are cuts in payments by EUR 3.6 billion. The Commission, when presenting the draft budget, was fully aware of the constraints and austerity that exist in the Member States and the measure of our responsibilities, such that we have drafted the budget EUR 4 billion below the ceiling of the Financial Perspective and, what is more, we have concentrated all the increases on heading 1. That is conducive to growth and jobs and it should be seen as small anti-crisis packages locally or sectorally placed.
This is 96% of the increases that have been concentrated in heading 1, as a measure of our responsibility. It is quite usual for cohesion to move at a cruising speed in the middle of a financial perspective, after a slow start.
As for commitments, we welcome the fact that the Council will not be cutting operational expenditure but also cutting pre-accession programmes, which could be a signal to the candidate countries and could provoke a measure of reopening of the programming process and the revision of the allocation of funds between countries.
A small comment on administration: I am going to be very tough on this issue and I am not going to be very popular with my colleagues. But what is being cut are the so-called administrative support lines and the main victim is heading 4. This is about managing programmes, including emergency reactions to natural disasters, which is becoming a real challenge for the European Union.
The European Union was the first to react very quickly to the Pakistan disaster. As for the humanitarian aid and also for emergency aid reserves, I launched this procedure last week, but that needs management. This is about management administration lines for operational programmes.
Another area that was cut was the increase for research executive agencies, which are phasing in, and research executive agencies are managing the Seventh Framework Programme, which is growing by EUR 1 billion in 2010 and should grow and will grow by EUR 1 billion in 2011."@en1
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