Brussels, 13/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - Presenting the Annual Report on the 2000 Financial Year to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, the President of the European Court of Auditors, Jan Karlsson, highlighted that the implementation of the 2000 budget had been characterised by "the emergence of a very large surplus of revenue over expenditure, amounting to EUR 11.6 billion, equivalent to more than 14% of final payment expenditure. The main factors which led to this situation...