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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, first, please let me make a remark. Today, the part-session of the European Parliament is debating 43 reports concerning discharge, which means that we can spend somewhat less than four minutes per report on how the money of tax-paying European citizens is spent. To put that into numbers, the European Parliament is so amazingly capable that it can control EUR 1 billion in funds used in the budget of the European Union and the budgets of the various agencies every minute. In my opinion, if the European Parliament is that amazingly capable, then this body should be appointed as some kind of European auditing company. Perhaps this limited time is unworthy of such an extensive matter.
With regard to the question of cohesion policy, the error rate is lower than in the previous programming period. I feel this is important to mention because following the discharge procedures, the question of the error rate always tends to be used to cudgel cohesion policy. In the field of cohesion policy, the error rate primarily results from disregarding public procurement rules and payment entitlements. I think this certainly underlines the need for simplification."@en1
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