13. Strongly supports increased transparency and simplification of budgetary processes at all levels of governance (including identifying sources of EU funding explicitly within national and sub-state budgets), as well as ensuring the availability of data at EU level on the spending profiles of EU funding programmes at regional level (where this is possible) but also clarifying how priorities and funding are aligned at EU, Member State and sub-state level towards agreed EU-level priorities;

13. Strongly supports increased transparency and simplification of budgetary processes at all levels of governance (including identifying sources of EU funding explicitly within national and sub-state budgets), as well as ensuring the availability of data at EU level on the spending profiles of EU funding programmes at regional level (where this is possible) but also clarifying how priorities and funding are aligned at EU, Member State and sub-state level towards agreed EU-level priorities;

10. Is concerned that the frontloading of spending on rural development at the beginning of the financial period 2007-2013 does not reflect the usual expenditure profile at Member State level, where the traditional pattern is to spend more towards the end of the period;

Before the beginning of each financial year, the Commission shall determine for that purpose monthly expenditure profiles based, if necessary, on average monthly expenditure during the previous three years.

The Commission will appraise the figures communicated by the Member States by comparing them with the profile of expected total expenditure each year.

6. Underlines the necessity for monitoring the budget at technical and political level eg. by the means of budgetary hearings; will continue its recent efforts to follow-up the Commission's implementation records both in qualitative and quantitative terms (RAL), the formulation of spending targets and the respect of the implementation profile, with the aim of increasing its effectiveness ; calls for more involvement from the specialised committees on implementation and on legislative programming to increase EP's influence over the work programme of the Commission and to give concrete effects to the matching between legislative and budg ...[+++]etary decisions; calls for further simplification of the budgetary procedure; points out that the Council's spending promises can no longer be financed without an increase in budget resources;