European Parliament 24 June 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-1808/02 by Konstantinos Hatzidakis (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Environmental damage to the Neda river valley in Greece.

The suggestion that the amounts were ‘unlawful’ and that they should be repaid ignores the plain principle of parallelism in the Regulation. It also implies that the Honourable Member thinks that approval of the budget has no meaning. The Commission is surprised that a Member of the European Parliament, part of the budgetary authority, should take such a view.