The difficulties which occurred - a 4% possible error in the area of agriculture and a little more in the area of Structural Funds - did not result from the failure of the European Commission to dispense those funds in an efficient way, but from a failure - and it was a small failure - to control the Member States and the European governments and to ensure that the Member States and their administrations had done the job in the way it should have been done.
De vanskeligheder, der har været - 4% mulige fejl inden for landbruget og lidt mere i forbindelse med strukturfondene - skyldtes ikke Kommissionens manglende evne til at disponere effektivt over de midler, men en anden mangel, som ikke var så alvorlig, nemlig at den ikke kunne kontrollere medlemsstaterne og de europæiske regeringer og sikre, at medlemsstaterne og deres regeringer havde udført deres arbejde korrekt.