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"The EU budget discharge procedure offers an important way to ensure that European money is spent with the utmost respect for taxpayers. At times of economic crisis, when all Member States are required to pursue economic austerity, we must ensure that the EU uses its resources carefully and keeps waste and fraud to a minimum. Aside from the report on horizontal issues regarding financial management and controlling the agencies, this morning we also voted on 24 decentralised bodies. Discharge was granted for 21 agencies, but postponed for three of them: the European Medicines Agency in London, partly for refusing to establish a new payment system; the European Food Safety Authority in Parma, due to the need for drastic spending cuts on board meetings, as well as conflicts of interest among staff and members of the management board; and the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen, due to conflicts of interest. Our vote is a call for clarity from those agencies not granted discharge, including out of respect for the public money of EU citizens."@en1

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