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If any of the following requirements have not been met, the auditors report should state that fact:

This is a point to which we shall return when discussing other Court of Auditors reports.

Indeed, Court of Auditors reports tell us that in recent times the checks on agricultural expenditure have greatly improved.

Conversely we are entitled to write what we ourselves see fit by way of comment on the Court of Auditors report.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, my thanks for the presentation of the Court of Auditors report.

For this reason both the form and the content of the Court of Auditors report and the Commission's reply were examined.

Audit of certain aspects of German reunification measures (Court of Auditors report)

Recently modifications have been made by the PCAOB to the opinion in the inderpendent auditors report.

Greece and Portugal are the two poorest Community members, and in 1989, the Court of Auditors reports, they received nearly equal grants from the regional and social funds.

According to our group, however, there is an urgent need for changes in the common agricultural policy, and the 1996 Court of Auditors report sets out several problems including that of cohesion.

Secondly, as the Court of Auditors report said, on the broader point of improving the system, we want to strengthen the UCLAF operation rather than weaken it.

Yet this 'distraction', which the Commission's own Court of Auditors Reports have warned, costs hundreds of millions of pounds, was dismissed as accounting for no more than 0.18% of farm spending.

The annual European Court of Auditors report established that the European Commission had taken numerous steps concerning the use of structural and cohesion funds as part of its far-reaching supervision.

If we consider that the Court of Auditors report contains political views, we will defend the Commission's - and the Parliament's and the Council's - right to decide on political guidelines.

I do not yet wish to put a figure on our results, but Parliament will have an excellent opportunity to assess these results annually when the Court of Auditors report comes out for Parliament's inspection.

However, it suffers the weakness and, if you will, the isolation of unaccountability. This is brought out very clearly in the Court of Auditors report, which refuses to confirm that all is going well.

Meanwhile, the estimated costs were close to EUR 1.3 billion in the United Kingdom and over EUR 700 million in France according to the latest Court of Auditors report.

And how would you assess these problems within the Commission in the light of the Court of Auditors report, which specifically praises this type of cooperation as the only way for smaller organisations to obtain access to this money at all?

Moving on to the environment: once again, we have in the Court of Auditors Report examples where structural funding money is used to undo environmental damage that has been created by previous structural programmes. That is still a disgrace to me and is something that needs to be put right very quickly.

I should like to say a few brief words on behalf of Mrs Magdalene Hoff about the sections relating to nuclear safety as well. The Court of Auditors report reveals that the greatest weakness in the TACIS programme for Ukraine lies in the area of nuclear safety.

In general terms, the Court of Auditors report concludes that the delays and inefficiency revealed, in conjunction with frequent differences of opinion on methods and priorities, led to spending that was not commensurate with actual requirements and to the formulation of plans which could not then be realized to maximum effect.