We must not allow large margins of appreciation in budgetary law.

We regard this essential to our budgetary law.

This new budgetary law will also make budget execution more transparent and more coherent.

This concerns our budgetary law most directly.

Secondly, the Commission has made an overall assessment of the preparedness of its services for the implementation of this new budgetary law.

I would also point out that Member States' budgetary laws are far more complex and less flexible than the European Union legislation.

Under French budgetary law, for example, there are global allocations that allow appropriations to be committed by decree in advance in emergencies.

Tax law exerts its stranglehold, labour law may leave no room to breathe and budgetary law short-changes us.

You yourselves must ensure the proper anchoring of your own responsibility in budgetary law, and this even applies to the President of the Council.

Their decision puts them in breach of all the Treaties currently in force and of budgetary law, Parliament's most important prerogative.

A budgetary law enacted in 1858 gave pensions to widows and orphans of deceased recipients of the Iron Cross.

Since November 2002, European budgetary law has incorporated this disaster financing law with this Solidarity Fund.

Also in preparation is a law concerning the basis of the reorganization of the Ministry of Justice, and a constitutional budgetary law.

The Court of Audit performs a legality audit on the public expenditures and receipts by checking their conformity with the budgetary law.

(FR) Mr President, most of our States have lines of credit in their budgetary law for dealing with disasters.

This service is uncharted territory - terra incognita - and breaks with some of the previous fundamentals of budgetary law and staffing law.

We want not only to have co-decision when it comes to money; we want the shaping of internal affairs policy to start with Parliament, and budgetary law is part of that.

We shall have to check that the Union's revenue is going to be used efficiently and for its intended purpose within the framework of our budgetary law, the financial regulation and the commitments entered into.

It has taken a great effort by all concerned, the European Parliament in particular, to reach the goal of the European Union having a new, modern budgetary law by 1 January 2003.

The second point I would like to address is this: if Parliament is to lose out as a result of changes to budgetary law, then I regard that as the breaking point.

It is also fundamental to the Pact that a state’s budget should be considered as a single whole when assessing compliance with the criteria; this is not just prescribed by general budgetary law, but also enjoined upon us by sound human reason.

The money transfers by Westinghouse, Bechtel and department officials based in South Carolina "resulted in budgetary laws and Department of Energy laws being circumvented," said the report, which was available to the public on March 14 but not distributed.

The second point, on which we are negotiating, is that we believe that money from fines that are paid must be treated in accordance with general principles of budgetary law, in other words it must go into the budget of the European Community.

This new budgetary law will provide better protection for the Community's financial interests - I might mention, for example, the securities to be lodged by the recipients of advance payments, the obligation on contractors to provide auditor's certificates or the Commission's ability to bar contractors from tendering procedures if irregularities have been found in the past.