TEXTS ADOPTED
1. 2001 budgetary guidelines Rdash Section III
A5-0070/2000
European Parliament resolution on the guidelines for the 2001 budget procedure Rdash Section III Rdash
Commission
The European Parliament,
Wdash having regard to Article 272 of the EC Treaty, Article 177 of the Euratom Treaty and Article 78 of the
ECSC Treaty,
Wdash having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA)of 6 May 1999 between the European Parlia-
ment, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetaryprocedure (
1),
Wdash having regard to the European Parliament and Council Decision of 16 December 1999 to use the
flexibility instrument for the financing of the reconstruction of Kosovo (2),
Wdash having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets and the opinions of the Committee on
Economic and Monetary Affairs, Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, Committee on theEnvironment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, Committee on Agriculture and Rural Developmentand Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities (A5-0070/2000),
A. whereas the budgetary procedure for the EU budget 2000 has shown the benefits of the Interinstitu-
tional Agreement of 6 May 1999 and its limitations, especially as regards the ceilings of the differentcategories of the financial perspective,
B. whereas the amounts provided for within the ceiling for heading 4 of the financial perspective are
structurally inadequate to cope with reconstruction needs in Kosovo and needs in the western Balkansin general,
C. whereas in the 2000 budgetary procedure the two arms of the budgetary authority came to an agree-
ment to increase the ceiling of heading 4 through the mobilisation of the flexibility instrument inorder to provide for a revised amount to secure the reconstruction of Kosovo in 2000 which doesnot jeopardise the traditional policies of the Union, and whereas the Interinstitutional Agreement of6 May 1999 has already opened the way for the revision of the financial perspective in view ofdevelopments in the Balkan situation (Declaration on heading 4),
D. whereas the Commission, in Declaration No 1 on the abovementioned European Parliament and
Council Decision of 16 December 1999, confirmed that it will propose by April 2000 an aid pro-gramme for the western Balkans, including Kosovo, for the period 2000-2006, and that the amountconcerned will require it to submit a proposal for revision of the financial perspective and a program-ming plan for heading 4; whereas in Declaration No 2 the European Parliament and the Council tooknote that ‘if a sum requiring a financial effort significantly greater than that already programmed wereto be agreed, this would entail exceeding the current ceilings for heading 4 of the financial perspec-tive’,
E. whereas the budget for 2000 takes the first steps towards reducing the existing backlog in payments,
in particular in heading 2 (Structural operations), heading 3 (especially the framework programme forresearch)and heading 4 (External actions)of the financial perspective, and whereas Parliament willinsist on the continuing need to search for a definitive solution for this problem and to ensure thata sufficient level of payments is maintained over the new programming period,
F. whereas the solution to the problems raised by the financing of European Union assistance in the
Western Balkans should not undermine the European Union’s commitment to financing other sectorsand other external action priorities of the European Parliament,
(1)OJ C 172, 18.6.1999, p. 1.
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G. whereas the forthcoming enlargement of the Union will be constantly borne in mind in the budget
procedure,
H. whereas it is undesirable for the Commission to enter into financial commitments or arouse expecta-
tions without first consulting the budgetary authority about the basis and financial cover for those
commitments; whereas the Council and Parliament should consider their dual responsibility as legisla-tive and budgetary authorities in deciding on both annual allocation and multiannual envelopes forcodecision programmes,
I. whereas, in the procedures for the budget years 1999 and 2000, important progress was made by
Parliament in identifying and restricting the administrative expenditure entered in part B of Section III(Commission)of the EU General Budget,
J. whereas since March 1999 it has been calling for an evaluation of the Commission’s priorities and real
needs for human resources which has not yet been provided although a commitment was made tolink this evaluation to the forthcoming reform,
K. whereas Parliament has successfully urged the Commission to present a timetable for re-organising
externalisation policy in an efficient, cost-effective and transparent way, including the definition ofthe legal framework, structure and mandate of the different instruments of externalisation by mid-April 2000, to dismantle current Technical Assistance Offices and to present, by the endof September 2000, the proposal on a legal framework for a new category of Community bodies,a timetable for testing and extending the use of this new category of Community bodies, and a firstassessment in terms of staff needs,
L. whereas the Commission announced serious and profound administrative reforms from the year 2000
on, including the achievement of a better match between resources and tasks, and on 1 March 2000presented a White Paper on Reforming the Commission containing an outline of the future ‘adminis-trative architecture’ of the Commission,
M. whereas Activity Based Budgeting (ABB)as part of Activity Based Management (ABM)has to play an
important role in the framework of the administrative reform inaugurated by the Commission,
N. whereas Parliament intends, subject to the Council’s meeting its obligations, to follow the Interinstitu-
tional Agreement, in particular to improve cooperation between the institutions on budgetary matters,and asks the Council and Commission to act likewise,
O. whereas the Council and the Commission need to take account of the objectives set out in Parlia-
ment’s budget guidelines in a spirit of constructive cooperation with a view to the drafting of thePreliminary Draft Budget and the Draft Budget,
Political priorities
1. Stresses the need in time to find appropriate funding to finance policies newly introduced or rein-
forced by the Amsterdam Treaty, in both internal and external actions; and underlines its objective tostrengthen the social and cultural dimension of Europe through the first budget of the new millenniumand to set priorities in the field of employment policy by using all the instruments at its disposal; tosupport measures to develop the cultural industry; and to promote the broad participation of all socialsectors and regions in the information society and the principle of equal opportunities in accordancewith Article 13 of the EC Treaty;
2. Underlines its consistent priority to support employment policy, job-creation and the dissemination
of the new technologies in particular through micro-enterprises and SMEs, irrespective of the legal formthey take; stresses that measures in favour of employment should be targeted at these enterprises and atthe information technology sector, taking into account the results of the Lisbon Summit;C 378/58 EN 29.12.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities
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3. Underlines the need to provide a sustainable and multiannual contribution to the financial assistance
for the reconstruction of Kosovo and the stabilisation of the Balkan region in order to improve the huma-nitarian situation and to create the conditions for closer relations between the people and the countries ofthis region and the European Union; draws attention to the undertaking to this effect given by the Councilin its declaration of 16 December 1999; recalls, in accordance with paragraph 20 of the InterinstitutionalAgreement, the need to decide on a revision of the financial perspective before the start of the budgetaryprocedure, and before the Council’s first reading at the latest;
4. Stresses the need to launch, before the end of 2000, the reform of the administrative system of the
European Union in order to improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness, accountability and transparency, recal-
ling that the image of Europe, in the eyes of certain sectors of the public, is linked to the success of this
reform; recalls its request in the context of the 2000 Budget for an assessment of staff needs, now expectedto be published in September; requests that the Commission include in this report what the staff require-ments are to maintain core activities and run existing programmes, as well as estimates for additional staffto underpin new activities;
Administrative reform
5. Welcomes the Commission’s announcements on administrative reform, and notes the presentation of
the White Paper, ‘Reforming the Commission’, to be considered by Parliament; expects the Commission tofollow the letter and spirit of the undertakings given during the 2000 budget procedure; points out that aconsensual climate between the institutions in the budgetary procedure will improve the chances for anefficient implementation of the reform package;
6. Emphasises that the political guidance and supervision of the European administration are core
responsibilities of the European Parliament in order to guarantee an efficient use of taxpayers’ money,and recalls that the EC Treaty (Article 274)confers on the Commission responsibility for implementingthe budget and on Parliament powers of control over such implementation;
7. Insists that the Commission follow the timetable for reorganising externalisation policy and stresses
that it will not accept any departure from this timetable or any further delay in the reorganisation; pointsout that the success of the 2001 budget procedure will be heavily dependent on adherence to the commit-ment referred to in paragraph 5 above, which was made in the letter of 24 November 1999 from Com-mission Vice-President Kinnock, and Commissioner Schreyer;
Evolution of budgetary structure
8. Points out that the structure of the EU budget has to be clear, transparent and easy for the public to
understand to reflect the political objectives of the European Union and to facilitate supervision of theimplementation of the policy measures; the budget document itself must be the practical expression ofEuropean Union policy;
9. Welcomes the efforts of the Commission to present the PDB in parallel in the form of an Activity-
Based Budget (ABB), and underlines that the objectives of the ABB must be:
Wdash to improve administrative performance, transparency and the level of evaluation, and thus to enhance
its scope for exerting more clearly-targeted and stronger political guidance,
Wdash to foster sound management, efficiency and cost-effectiveness in the administration and to reinforce
flexibility of the management of Community actions by the Commission;
10. Asks the Commission to ensure that Parliament’s horizontal priorities such as mainstreaming of
green and gender issues are duly taken into account and highlighted;
11. Stresses that the objectives of Activity Based Budgeting are beneficial for all forms of European
Union expenditure and, therefore, the ABB exercise should be applied to all EU expenditure, includingthe European Development Fund (EDF);29.12.2000 EN C 378/59 Official Journal of the European Communities
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12. Points out that the administrative reform and the introduction of the ABB must not prevent the
budgetary authority from exerting its powers over the allocation of the resources it considers necessary toimplement EU policies, and must prevent the Commission from binding the implementation of new pol-itical priorities to extra human resources or administrative expenditure;
13. Considers it essential, under the new financial framework for the period 2000-2006, that the bud-
getary authority exercise closer control of the financial statements in new legislative initiatives; urges theCouncil and Commission to agree with Parliament on a mechanism for implementing better monitoring ofnew proposals;
14. Welcomes current Commission thinking as regards adding a detailed breakdown of EDF appropria-
tions in an annex, as an important first step towards its integration in the budget; such a step will only beuseful if the information includes performance targets to enable the budgetary authority to monitor the
efficiency of implementation;
Implementation of the budget
15. Underlines the significance of the implementation of the budgets of the previous years for the es-
tablishment of the 2001 budget, emphasises the need to strengthen instruments for monitoring not onlythe quantitative, but in particular the qualitative aspects of the implementation of expenditure, and instructsits committees to continue their efforts concerning the monitoring of budget expenditure, and to developfurther their close cooperation; also instructs its committees to examine quarterly the implementation of
the budget on the basis of detailed reports from the Commission;
16. Stresses the need to establish, in cooperation with the Council and Commission, a procedure linking
the implementation of the current budget to the establishment of the budget for the following year;
17. Notes the ongoing work in the context of the 1998 discharge for Section III (Commission budget);
considers that the conclusions from this exercise may need to be reflected in the decisions taken in the2001 budget for the Commission;
18. Points out that there should be a detection and evaluation procedure for identifying non-compliance
with the conditions of implementation established in the budget; and stresses that a procedure should be
established to freeze the execution of budget lines if those conditions are not met;
19. Calls on the Commission to present by 31 May 2000 the proposal for the revision of the Financial
Regulation; expects that the proposal will reflect the recommendations made by Parliament and thechanges proposed by the Commission in the administrative, financial and budgetary fields; calls upon theCouncil to guarantee that no changes will be made to the Financial Regulation without Parliament’s agree-ment, thus respecting the principle of codecision which is practised in the budgetary field, and asks the
Council to speed up the procedure for adoption as much as possible;
Specific problems
Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions
20. Expects the Commission to give a positive follow-up to the pilot projects and preparatory actions
entered in the Budget 2000 by 30 April 2000 and to those entered in future budgets; draws attention inthis connection to paragraph 37 of the Interinstitutional Agreement; points out that those budget linesserve as a testbed for European integration and must therefore give rise to a thorough assessment andcirculation of the best results with a view to the development of new programmes or measures; undertakestherefore to monitor extremely closely, with the help of its specialised committees, the work carried out bythe Commission in this area so as to ensure that public funds are used in an effective manner;
Classification
21. Reiterates its position that expenditure resulting from international agreements, including interna-
tional fisheries agreements, which the European Union or the European Community has concluded withnon-member countries, has to be classified as compulsory only after the conclusion of the said agreements,according to Annex IV of the Interinstitutional Agreement; calls on the Commission to present theseappropriations in separate budget lines;C 378/60 EN 29.12.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities
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Natural disasters
22. Requests the Commission to pay special attention to structural problems of an economic or social
character caused by natural disasters and to look favourably on measures to help solve these problems;
Heading 1
23. Considers it undesirable that heading 1 of the financial perspectives should be used as a primary
financial source for financial needs in the field of external policy;
Differentiated appropriations
24. Asks the Commission to present in the framework of the revision of the Financial Regulation
a proposal to bring the appropriations in sub-heading 1 b under differentiated appropriations;
Ancillary expenditure
25. Criticises the Commission’s practice in Supplementary and Amending Budgets Nos 4 and 5/99 of
decreasing those budget lines in Title B1-3 (‘Ancillary expenditure’)which were Parliament’s priorities inthe 1999 budget procedure, and urges the Commission to make an effort to implement Parliament’s prio-rities even when they involve compulsory expenditure;
26. Calls on the Commission, in view of the importance of fisheries, including small-scale fisheries, for
preserving jobs and the economy in those outlying regions of the EU which are heavily fisheries-depen-dent, to include among its priorities not only resource conservation but also the consolidation and exten-sion of international fisheries agreements and the improvement of working conditions and safety standardsin the sector;
Heading 2
Management and Implementation
27. Underlines the need for in-depth analysis of the management of the Structural Funds, in particular
concerning the externalisation of financing decisions; urges the Commission and the Member Statesurgently to review the decision-making procedures in order to avoid a slow start in the implementationof the new funds in 2000, which would inevitably begin to store up problems for the 2001 budget and forfuture budgets;
Backlog
28. Underlines the need in 2001, already the second year of the new programming period 2000-2006,
finally to use up the very large accumulated backlog of appropriations ( ‘reste à liquider’ )still available under
the previous programming period 1993-1999, while respecting the principles of sound budgeting; urgesthe Commission to begin taking the necessary action to achieve a significant reduction in the paymentperiod for committed appropriations;
Cultural industry
29. Requests the Commission to continue, pursuant to Article 158 of the EC Treaty, to develop its
efforts to support the cultural industry in the framework of the structural operations, in view of the roleplayed by culture in reinforcing economic and social cohesion and given that culture is a major job crea-tor, is increasingly a decisive factor in the location of new investment, and plays a highly positive role insocial integration; stresses that the audiovisual industry (cinema, radio, television), the publishing industry(books and the press), the architectural, artistic, historical and archaeological heritage, and the work ofcreators in every sphere of the arts should, therefore, be paid particular attention by the Commission;29.12.2000 EN C 378/61 Official Journal of the European Communities
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Heading 3
Employment initiative
30. Stresses the need to ensure the continuity of significant funding for employment, complementing
actions financed by the Structural Funds in this field; asks the Commission to submit to Parliament, beforeits first reading of the 2001 budget, a qualitative evaluation of the employment initiative launched in 1998demonstrating its impact on job creation; calls on the Commission to concentrate further initiatives onmeasures to ensure greater integration of micro-enterprises and SMEs into the Information Society inorder to strengthen their competitiveness in an international environment;
Trans-European Networks
31. States that TENs are of particular strategic importance to future growth and to integration between
different parts of Europe; urges the incorporation of modern Information Technology Highways and net-works within the TENs programme in order to give Europe the best IT infrastructure in the world;
Agencies
32. Considers that the year 2001 should consolidate the progress made in the previous years in terms
of information and transparency, and recommends that positive and negative priorities should be set inorder to optimise the subsidy granted from the Union budget;
Social dialogue
33. Stresses that the dialogue between representatives of the two sides of industry has an important role
to play in European integration, as the inclusion in the Treaty of a basis for it shows; acknowledges thegrowing demands on employee organisations due to the process of internationalisation and globalisationof economic relations; considers therefore that the vital work of European associations of employee andemployer organisations should continue to receive support from the European budget and calls on theCommission to make appropriate provision for this in the Preliminary Draft Budget;
Information policy
34. Considers that efforts should be maintained to bring European citizens closer to the Union; to this
end asks the Commission to present an action plan of the centralised and decentralised measures it intendsto take under the new administrative structure which emerges from the reform, where possible on aninterinstitutional basis, and stresses that the new structure has to be transparent, closer to the citizensand guarantee the coherence of the information policy of the Union’s various institutions;
New policies after Amsterdam
35. Underlines the importance of appropriate funding for the areas newly introduced or reinforced by
the Amsterdam Treaty concerning internal policies such as combating discrimination, social exclusion,racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism; promoting economic and social cohesion; migration and asylumpolicy and other new common policies in the field of justice and internal affairs; education; employmentpolicy including SMEs; environment policy, public health, consumer protection and food safety; develop-
ment of island regions; specific measures for peripheral regions; statistics, and the setting up of the office
of the European Data Protection Supervisor;
Natural disasters
36. Stresses the need to re-establish line B4-3400 (urgent aid for natural disasters within the European
Union)so that urgent needs can be addressed immediately, fully respecting the principle of subsidiarity;C 378/62 EN 29.12.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities
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Justice and Internal Affairs
37. Underscores the strategic importance of the justice and home affairs sector following the entry into
force of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Tampere Summit conclusions, and in this context:
Wdash stresses the need to give the European Refugee Fund a permanent legal basis and appropriate budget
resources in order to ensure genuine burden-sharing among the Member States of the EuropeanUnion,
Wdash proposes that a new migration flow control instrument be created by instituting a development part-
nership with countries of origin and transit countries,
Wdash calls on the Commission to earmark the operational and administrative resources needed to introduce
the scoreboard adopted at Tampere, in particular Eurojust and the European Police College,
Wdash presses for the necessary bolstering of the measures intended to prevent and combat all forms of
discrimination as part of the process of implementing Article 13 of the EC Treaty;
Heading 4
Financial framework
38. Expects that the Commission, when presenting the proposal for the revision of heading 4 of the
financial perspective, will duly take into account all the events which have occurred recently relating to theexternal policy of the Union, and which neither the Council nor Parliament was able to take into accountwhen they agreed in May 1999 on heading 4 of the financial perspective; expects that at the forthcomingdonor conference on the multiannual programme for the Western Balkans the Commission will not enterinto financial commitments or arouse expectations without first consulting the budgetary authority aboutthe basis and financial cover for those commitments;
Small-scale projects
39. Calls on the Commission to simplify and decentralise procedures for small-scale projects, such as
human rights and democratisation projects, which offer high value for little money;
Civil crisis management
40. Requests the Commission, with a view to the plan for the presentation of a new mechanism for
civil crisis management, to accompany the Preliminary Draft Budget with a communication on the estab-lishment of a ‘Rapid Reaction Facility’ in favour of third countries;
Western Balkans
41. Requests the Commission to adjust the nomenclature of the budget, as regards the financing of
European Union assistance to the Western Balkans, in order to include in a single chapter (B7-54)all the
appropriations related to the financial assistance to this region, including macroeconomic assistance andtransfrontier cooperation;
Common foreign and security policy
42. Notes the trend, in recent years, towards a significant increase in the expenditure related to the
common foreign and security policy, and reiterates its determination to ensure that this trend is dulymonitored by both arms of the budgetary authority; indicates its intention to examine existing initiativesand, where appropriate, to extend and expand such initiatives where it could be shown that this would bein the European interest; calls on the Commission to provide the budgetary authority and the Court ofAuditors with detailed information on the use of appropriations for specific CFSP actions recalling theCouncil’s obligation to forward to Parliament the financial statement related to each decision adopted inthe field of CFSP and the Commission’s obligation to inform the budgetary authority about its implemen-tation and financial forecasts;29.12.2000 EN C 378/63 Official Journal of the European Communities
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TACIS
43. Recalls that the appropriations to be entered in the PDB 2001 for the TACIS programme must be
accompanied by clear information giving the estimated breakdown by sectors and beneficiary countries,welcomes the Council’s decision to re-focus the Tacis 2000 programme on core areas directly promotingdemocratic values in Russia, and to transfer uncommitted balances to humanitarian assistance and thepromotion of networking in civil society; requests the Commission, in the Preliminary Draft Budget,to enter the appropriations related to Russia in the reserve (B0-40), as long as a clear identification ofthe programmes and projects to be financed is not available and their respect of the principles and guide-lines decided by Parliament and the Council, as regards the Chechnya conflict, has not been achieved;
Poverty eradication and social development
44. States its determination that the budget should reflect the importance of internationally agreed
objectives of poverty eradication, paying particular attention to the Least Developed Countries (LLDCs),
and accepts the need for a greater focus on social development (health, gender, etc.); suggests that theway the budget is presented should make it possible to assess the EU’s performance in meeting interna-tional targets;
Heading 5
OLAF
45. Recalls that the new antifraud office (OLAF)has been provided with significant administrative and
staffing resources by the budgetary authority in the years 1999 and 2000 and, while confirming the targetof 300 posts, asks the Commission to indicate the level of occupancy of the new posts created in 1999and 2000;
Administrative reform
46. Draws the attention of all the institutions and in particular the Commission to the evaluation of the
needs attached to the administrative reform, to the limits of heading 5 and to the necessity for planningtheir establishment plans over the whole period covered by the financial perspective, and asks the institu-tions to transmit information on their planning to the budgetary authority;
Subsidies for European organisations
47. Acknowledges that progress has been made in recent years in enhancing transparency in the man-
agement of subsidies for European organisations (Chapter A-30); considers it necessary, however, giventhat those subsidies have a great impact on citizens, to ensure that they are cost-effective by avoidingduplication; will review thoroughly the annual reports for 1999 before taking its formal decision for the2001 budget;
Pensions
48. Requests the Commission to start making provisions in the preliminary draft budget for the year
2001 for a pension fund and to use for that purpose the nomenclature already used in the budget; requeststhe Commission to specify, in its preliminary draft budget and within the framework of Activity BasedBudgeting, the estimated payments for pensions to all retired staff of the institutions for the years 2001to 2010;
Heading 6
Reserve for guarantees
49. Expresses concern about the future capacity of this reserve to finance all requirements for EU lend-
ing interventions, and suggests that the priorities of the EU in terms of future loan interventions should bediscussed jointly by the budgetary authority and the Commission in order to ensure a degree of advanceC 378/64 EN 29.12.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities
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planning of needs; expects the Commission to update the financial information on loans and guarantees
contained in its working documents in time for second reading so that the latest information can beincluded in the published budget;
Heading 7
Cyprus and Malta
50. Reiterates its determination to enter all appropriations for the benefit of the accession candidate
countries, including those appropriations relating to the pre-accession strategy for Malta and Cyprus,under heading 7 of the financial perspective (title B7-0);
Implementation
51. Emphasises the need to monitor closely the implementation of the three actions PHARE, SAPARD
and ISPA against the background of the accession negotiations currently in progress;
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52. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Audi-
tors, the European Investment Bank and the Union’s satellite agencies.
2. 2001 budgetary guidelines Rdash other sections
A5-0068/2000
European Parliament resolution on the guidelines for the 2001 budget procedure: Section I Rdash
European Parliament; Section II Rdash Council; Section IV Rdash Court of Justice; Section V Rdash Court ofAuditors; Section VI Rdash Economic and Social Committee; Section VII Rdash Committee of the Regions;
Section VIII Rdash Ombudsman
The European Parliament,
Wdash having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2000 (
1),
Wdash having regard to the Court of Auditors’ Annual report concerning the financial year 1998, together
with the institutions’ replies (2),
Wdash having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets and the opinion of the Committee on Peti-
tions (A5-0068/2000),
A. whereas the ceiling of heading 5 in the 2001 budget is € 4 776 000 000 (3),
All institutions
1. Points out that the policy of budgetary rigour will also apply in the 2001 budget and that setting
priorities amongst the needs of the various institutions continues to be extremely important, to avoid theceiling of heading 5 expenditure being reached; emphasises that every request for additional expenditurehas to be duly justified, and may, in principle, be granted only for new tasks, and, in respect of requests fornew staff, only where redeployment is not possible;
(1)OJ L 40, 14.2.2000.
(2)OJ C 349, 3.12.1999, p. 1.
(3)To which an amount of about € 163 million has to be added, being the amount of the staff contributions to the
pension scheme of the officials of the Community. See footnote 2 to Annex I of the Interinstitutional Agreement of
6 May 1999 (OJ C 172, 18.6.1999, p. 1)and COM(2000)93 final, for the technical adjustments.29.12.2000 EN C 378/65 Official Journal of the European Communities
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