That is what your Committee on Budgets is proposing.

There are seven amendments which the Commission does not accept, and these are Nos 2, 11, second part, 12, 22, 23, last part, 42 and 48.

The Committee on Budgets is adamant about that.

Firstly, the question of the democratic deficit.

The quality, safety and effectiveness of a product are one thing and the conditions for its use are another.

I have completed my outline of the priorities that the Committee on Budgets is proposing to Parliament.

We can only regret that the Committee on Budgets has not taken us up on this.

Amongst them the European Social Fund must be of paramount importance in Community structural policy in the fields of vocational training and

The Commission finds this very regrettable, because it was originally its intention to submit the two letters of amendment early enough for them to be considered by Parliament at the first reading.

The Committee on Budgets decided this yesterday, but alas we have only a slender margin in Part A of the Commission's budget.

In the case of administrative expenditure in category 5 the proposal from the Committee on Budgets provides for substantial increases over 1990, and this for all the Community institutions, including the Commission. Mrs Theato has already referred to this.

A novelty, it must be said, for the Committee on Budgets is that in the responsible exercise of its duties, it has in some cases had to cut down the appropriations in the preliminary draft of the budget.

SIMEONI (ARC), draftsman for the Committee on Youth, Culture, Education, Media and Sport. (FR) Mr President, two minor points.

SAMLAND (S). (DEJ Madam Ptesident, I would like to tefet to the second aspect just mentioned by Mr von der Vring.

The Committee on Budgets has had to make extremely painful choices in selecting its priorities for the ECU 100 million.

VON DER VRING (S), chairman of the Committee on Budgets. (DE) Mr President, just a brief comment, if I may.

The economic summit has instructed the international organizations, especially the International Monetary Fund, to examine the matter before the end of the year.

PRESIDENT. Mr Pannella, as you know, this matter has yet to be decided.

As fot this Parliament, I shall not conceal the fact that the different versions of the

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In conclusion, Mr President, I shall make a suggestion which comes from the whole of the Committee on Budgets.

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This budget procedure and these revisions of the financial petspectives reveal, in our view, the shortcomings of the present financial measures.

The redistribution of these reserves proposed by the Committee on Budgets rules out this unambitious line. So a fresh look is going to be necessary.

This ill informed, malicious decision has shown the hypocrisy of a Parliament representing millions of European parents, which is willing to debate the rights of the child...

My view on this is quite the opposite of this new European radicalism.

Our Committee, under the guidance of our colleague Colom i Naval, is currently drafting pro posals.

In conclusion therefore, contrary to the vote of the Commission on Budgets, I advise rejection of this amendment but approval of another amendment adopted by the Commission on Budgets and having the same political effect, namely Amendment No 213.

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With regard to spending on agriculture, the result of the voting in the Committee on Budgets will perhaps come as a surprise to many of you.

And even if the amendment proposed by the Committee on Budgets were to be approved, it is insufficient.

So yes to discussions and negotiations at GATT level, but not to the destruction of family farms.

To come to the content of the Community policies set out in the budget, it may be noted that the EAGGF Guarantee ceiling has been maintained at the level of the 1991 financial perspectives, in spite of the enlargement of the EEC.

It is a mystery why the Council does not want to give the Commission the means with which to carry out policies of its own making, for instance in the area of competition policy or in the case of the statistical programmes that provide essential back up to Community policies, to mention just these two examples.

So much for the numerical

I fully support the recommend ation of the Committee on Budgets to add up to ECU 18 million to what is already proposed under this heading. Apartheid is an abomination and no black South

Similarly, the Commit tee on Budgets felt it could not fail to heed to severe criticisms of the Commission's management of staff numbers made by the Court of Auditors.

One of them, Mr President, which is the one now reintroduced, was only partially adopted.

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I give a warning about the future of the Community budget, because the Council is vety good, while keeping theit hands in theit pocket or at least guarding theit wallet, at making commitments about Community expenditure on all the grand platforms of the world.

I have to point out in this connection that the Commission has taken the decision to carry on ECS financial activities until 2002, which means that commitments will run beyond that date, without the budgetary authority having had the opportunity to discuss the merits of this decision.

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