Mrs van der Laan’s report – on which she has lavished a great deal of hard work, and for which we are indebted to her – proposes that we should grant discharge to the Commission for 1997. One might ask how it is that the current Commission is to receive the discharge for its predecessor’s budgetary management – Mr Camre just mentioned this – particularly as the discharge for the previous year, 1996, was denied.
À présent, Mme van der Laan, à laquelle il convient de rendre hommage pour tout le travail qu’elle a accompli, nous invite dans son rapport à donner décharge à la Commission pour l’année 1997.