I would also like to say a few words about the pre-accession funds.

The fall concerns all spending areas except direct expenditure and pre-accession funds.

Thanks to the help we provided, much of it as pre-accession funds, steady improvements in the situation have been achieved.

Structural and pre-accession funds should be more efficiently used to finance such initiatives.

We attach great importance, therefore, to using these pre-accession funds as usefully as possible.

I believe that the possibility of using the pre-accession funds for that purpose should be studied in depth.

The European Union should mobilise pre-accession funds through aid across a wide front so as to promote the reform process in those countries.

These trainings were funded with the government's EU pre-accession funds, earmarked for trafficking.

The efficiency of the pre-accession funds spent in the area of justice reform and the combating of corruption must be assessed.

Three areas, representing around 80% of the EU budget, are singled out: agricultural policy, cohesion policy and pre-accession funds.

Agriculture, cohesion policy and pre-accession funds are areas where rates of irregularity and fraud are particularly pronounced.

Mr President-in-Office, we discovered yesterday evening that we agree to a very wide extent on the pre-accession funds.

There are areas where Member States implement the budget (agriculture, cohesion, pre-accession funds) and for collection of the EU's own resources through customs and duties.

The report repeatedly highlights the unusually low levels of fraud and irregularity reported by various countries in relation to agricultural expenditure, structural funds and pre-accession funds.

As requested by the Council, the Commission has given a high priority to nuclear safety in the accession partnerships and in using pre-accession funds to pursue these priorities.

Despite such setbacks, most coastal, some mountainous roads, and water supply and treatment facilities are being reconstructed mainly through IPA pre-accession funds to the EU.

The European Union also has to guarantee more resources, more money and clearer, more easily attainable conditions for the pre-accession funds; otherwise our intention to continue enlargement will not be credible.

The Commission should now work with the new Member States and accession countries to assist them in using the European Regional Development Fund and the pre-accession funds to create a comprehensive health care infrastructure.

I absolutely agree that we need to improve supervision of pre-accession funds, given the experience in 2009, and that we need to monitor OLAF's work constantly, not only when the annual report is debated.

The report presents a summary of the available statistics on irregularities reported by the Member States in various areas, including agricultural policy, cohesion policy, pre-accession funds and the recovery of the EU's traditional own resources.

However, the greatest growth was recorded in the area of pre-accession funds, where the wrong spending of resources rose by as much as 90.6%, but it should be remembered that they are not Member States and they lack experience.

Under these circumstances, there is not a single reason for tightening the bonds of friendship and allowing Turkey to qualify for contributions from pre-accession funds such as ISPA and SAPARD.

The section on Turkey has attracted attention and, whilst we must ensure pre-accession funds are used more effectively, let me stress that we are not about to change the nature of the EU's relationship with that country.

In other words, even with the pre-accession funds, we are trying to ensure that the candidate countries do not dump their transport onto the roads and that they maintain a percentage at least equivalent to the current figure in the rail sector.

The report adopted today includes amendments tabled by me, which recommend consolidating the ability to manage the pre-accession funds supplied by the European Union and support the implementation of the reforms required as part of the accession process.