Statement of Janusz LEWANDOWSKI (Poland), Commissioner designate for Budget and Financial Programming, and question by Ivars GODMANIS (ALDE, LV), during his hearing at EP in Brussels.

Brussels

LEWANDOWSKI, Janusz (EPP, PL)

Committee on Budgets

hearing of Commissioners

GODMANIS, Ivars (ALDE, LV)

appointment of a member of the European Commission (T)

2010 Commissioners' hearings (T)

hearing of Janusz LEWANDOWSKI (T)

Hearing of Janusz LEWANDOWSKI (Poland), Commissioner-designate for Budget and Financial Programming: extracts

External view of the European Parliament in Brussels.

Janusz LEWANDOWSKI, Commissioner designate for Budget and financial programming (IN ENGLISH) : Review has to touch all the aspects including own ressources. We are obliged to present a new proposal for the new financial perspectives. In order to make it properly we should take into account all the reports by Alain Lamassoure, because this was a sincere effort to contact also the national parliaments.

Janusz LEWANDOWSKI (IN ENGLISH) : The CAP is actually changing. This is not the same proportion of the budget as it was in the eighties. This was between 70% or 80% and now it is going to be 33% at the end of these financial perspectives, but this is the most criticized area of the common policy. What we need is I think, in my personal opinion, not a nationalisation of the agricultural policy, because this is the end of the communal policy, but what I would call "following the mood of modulation", more on voluntary basis.

Janusz LEWANDOWSKI (IN ENGLISH): I know that apart from other candidate taxes, the financial transaction taxation is on the table as one of the options. As far as I know recently Mr Tobin has refrained to be supported completely. This is on the table as one of the options to be discussed with the European Central Bank.

Janusz LEWANDOWSKI (IN ENGLISH): I am opened candidate for alternative own resources for the European Union, under certain limits, which have been already well enumerated and even to those coming from those called 'think tanks'.

Janusz LEWANDOWSKI (IN ENGLISH): The declaration certified by the national audit offices from around the European Union is not yet accomplished. It is not event quite realistic in the near future but here is the problem of different standards of different Member States. That is why there is a request on the floor, very well known to me, "to name and shame", by revealing the name of states not accomplishing the rules in execution, conception or implementation of the cohesion policy. But this is very unpopular for the Council and I am in between.

Ivars GODMANIS (MEP EPP, Latvia): The deadline for Social Funding, Develop Funding is over, and 4.45 billion will not be adopted by the Member States. Instead of 95% we have 92.8%. Cohesion fund deadline will be the end of the year. It could be outstanding numbers, a total of 16 billion, this 4.4 will up, so it means that the Member States have not fulfilled their tasks.

Janusz LEWANDOWSKI (IN ENGLISH): I can not commit myself now. Of course, is a very well known recognised problem, but either coming after recycling back the money, a difficult exercise, giving the crisis situation and the budget deficits in the European Union.