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Es cierto que estamos viendo que, en el fraude fundamental, hay discrepancias entre lo que dice el Tribunal de Cuentas y lo que está diciendo la OLAF. Parece ser que no es, a juicio de la OLAF, en los Fondos estructurales donde existe el fraude y la mala gestión.
Son otros gastos los que constituyen el objeto de nuestras preocupaciones. En todo caso, volviendo al tema de la OLAF, es en este informe donde creo que tenemos que pedir que la OLAF disponga ya cuanto antes de todos los funcionarios que le están asignados. Sin embargo, creo que es muy importante que, en esta primera fase -y precisamente porque estamos interesados en el control-, no aumentemos el objeto social de la OLAF a los pocos meses de su entrada en funcionamiento.
Entiendo que hay y va a haber grandes problemas -esperemos que no- con la falsificación posible de la moneda, o de las marcas, o del IVA.
Pero es imprescindible que dejemos que la OLAF vaya cumpliendo su objeto social poco a poco y que después aumentemos el papel de este organismo.
Finalmente, no tendríamos que duplicar cometidos.
Entiendo que un correcto empleo de los recursos implica que cada cuestión tenga un responsable y no que todos sean responsables de todo.
En ese contexto, creo que habría que establecer una clara separación entre objetos y no propiciar su confusión. Como al final "quien mucho abarca poco aprieta" -se dice en España-, si queremos que se apriete el control, no hay que hacer que el objeto sea absolutamente general. Señor Presidente, felicito también a nuestro colega, el Sr. Bösch, por su informe. Como siempre, ya se ha dicho, del informe se deduce que también en 1998 una parte demasiado grande de los recursos económicos europeos no se ha gastado como se debía.
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 It is clear that, in fundamental fraud, there are discrepancies between what the Court of Auditors says and what OLAF says. In OLAF' s judgement, it appears that it is not in the Structural Funds that fraud and bad management prevail.
It is other expenditure that we should be concerned about. In any event, returning to OLAF, by means of this report, we should, in my view, ask for OLAF to be provided as soon as possible with the officials which have been allocated to it. However, I think it is very important that, in this first stage - precisely because we are interested in control - we do not increase OLAF' s scope of activity so soon after it has begun its work. I understand that there are and there will be - although we hope that this is not the case - great problems with the counterfeiting of currency, trademarks or VAT.
It is essential that we allow OLAF to continue to pursue its scope of activity little by little and that we expand its role at a later date. Finally, we should not duplicate responsibilities.
In order to use resources correctly, one body should be responsible for each issue and we should not have a situation where everybody is responsible for everything.
I therefore believe that we should clearly separate objectives and not allow confusion to reign. At the end of the day "he that too much embraceth, holds little", as we say in Spain, so if we want to manage control, we cannot all have the same objective.
Mr President, I would like to join the many speakers who have congratulated Mr Bösch on his report.
As usual - and as has already been mentioned - the annual report shows that in 1998 too, an excessive proportion of the European resources was not spent according to the rules. As usual, most irregularities pertain to expenditure in the Member States and vary in nature.