2. The Programme shall complement other Union programmes, without prejudice to the specific procedures of those programmes.

17. As a practical proposal to improve the performance of EU programmes, considers it necessary that the current management and budgetary cycles be better used when preparing the new budget; in technical terms this means that for the current procedure (Budget 2010), the AARs and their Synthesis report for 2008, containing the results on whether the objectives were fulfilled or not, must be available in time and more extensively used throughout the Commission's proposals made during 2009; stresses its wish that there should be "syste ...[+++]matic consequences" as a result of how previous priorities and goals are progressing; criticises the fact that, from one year to another, there is not enough focus on what has been done with regard to these and how that should reflect on the following years;

17. As a practical proposal to improve the performance of EU programmes, considers it necessary that the current management and budgetary cycles be better used when preparing the new budget; in technical terms this means that for the current procedure (Budget 2010), the AARs and their Synthesis report for 2008, containing the results on whether the objectives were fulfilled or not, must be available in time and more extensively used throughout the Commission's proposals made during 2009; stresses its wish that there should be "syste ...[+++]matic consequences" as a result of how previous priorities and goals are progressing; criticises the fact that, from one year to another, there is not enough focus on what has been done with regard to these and how that should reflect on the following years;

17. As a practical proposal to improve the performance of EU programmes, considers it necessary that the current management and budgetary cycles be better used when preparing the new budget; in technical terms this means that for the current procedure (Budget 2010), the AARs and their Synthesis report for 2008, containing the results on whether the objectives were fulfilled or not, must be available in time and more extensively used throughout the Commission's proposals made during 2009; stresses its wish that there should be "syste ...[+++]matic consequences" as a result of how previous priorities and goals are progressing; criticises the fact that, from one year to another, there is not enough focus on what has been done with regard to these and how that should reflect on the following years;

In addition to that, we would not only like a state of play from the Commission as to which of the outstanding regulations we could have withdrawn, but above all what we would like is to be sure that we have clarity between what we have here in the budget process and the legislative process of the work programme which is decided on by the Commission today; so that when we have a final decision on this budget, hopefully in December, and the resolution from Parliament on the legislative work programme, then both of these can be bound together and we can have the Commission President come to Parliament in February 2007 and tell us what the ...[+++] final work programme of the Union is. Otherwise it is unclear to citizens.

16. Takes note of the likely budgetary constraints on the 2004 budget, given that new needs have emerged since 1999 and that the increase in the number of programmes adopted under the co-decision procedure makes budgetary decisions less flexible; reiterates its view that new political needs can be covered only to a very limited extent under the existing financial perspective ceilings; asks the Commission to give an overview of the financial programming in category 3 and 4 since 1999, indicating to which extent re-programming has alr ...[+++]eady taken place; stresses the need to further improve coherence between its legislative and budgetary powers; calls on the Commission to submit, together with the preliminary draft budget, an analysis of the operational programmes' compatibility with the financial perspective; underlines the positive experience of the new structured dialogue which was applied in this context last year for the first time and the outcome of the new type of budgetary debate initiated in 2002, which has raised the profile of budgetary issues; considers that it will be important to further strengthen the link between the budgetary procedure and the legislative programme and discharge procedure; therefore calls on the specialised committees to fully apply the procedures put in place in the Commission's legislative and work programme in the context of the activity-based management (see Annex XIV of the Rules of Procedure);