WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2169/96 by Gerhard SCHMID to the Commission. Kaleidoscope - my Written Question E-0187/96
Date: 1996-08-02
Institutions: European Parliament, SCHMID
Subjects: EU programme, European official, costing, cultural event, cultural policy, cultural relations, cultural transmission













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2169/96 by Gerhard SCHMID to the Commission. Kaleidoscope - my Written Question E-0187/96  


Official Journal C 060 , 26/02/1997 P. 0130 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-2169/96 by Susan Waddington (PSE) to the Commission (2 August 1996)Subject: Kaleidoscope - my Written Question E-0187/96The Commission will have noted that my aim is to obtain a more precise breakdown of the costs of administering the Kaleidoscope programme, with particular reference to staff.1. In its answer to my Written Question E-0187/96 ((OJ C 161, 5.6.1996, p. 46. )) the Commission states, in paragraph 1, that the Kaleidoscope programme will be administered by a senior consultant, a junior consultant and a C/3 official, who will continue to report to the Head of Unit. In order to calculate the expenditure for the above staff, I would be grateful if the Commission could send me all relevant details, such as grades and salary increments.2. How many outside staff have been brought in to support the three Commission officials and what are the resulting costs?3. How can the Commission give an approximate figure of ECU 130 000 and in the same breath say 'it is difficult to give an exact figure'?Answer given by Mr Oreja on behalf of the Commission (20 September 1996)1 and 2. In the framework of the 1996 Kaleidoscope programme, the Commission has employed the services of a senior consultant for six months (ECU 25 000), a junior consultant for one year (ECU 30 000), a C3 official (ECU 37 000) and seven external freelances for 3 months (ECU 21 000).3. The Honourable Member will appreciate that the Kaleidoscope programme is in a process of constant and major change, and that the Commission has a limited number of staff to run it. From 1991 until 1995 it took the form of a pilot project open to the twelve - subsequently fifteen - Member States. It has only been organized as a Community programme since 1996, and is open, from 1997 onwards, to 30 countries (15 Member States, 3 EFTA/EEA countries, 10 central European countries, Cyprus and Malta). Moreover, the organization of the 1996 programme has been further complicated by its late adoption, which has compelled the Commission to compress its work into a very short space of time, relying on the efforts of all the staff of the unit concerned.Therefore, although the Commission has made every effort to reply as fully as possible to the Honourable Member's questions, it should be noted that, for the reasons already given in replies to his previous questions (QE 332/95, ((OJ C 175, 10.7.1995. )) 2128/95 ((OJ C 340, 18.12.1995. )) and 187/96) the estimate of costs for 1994 remains indicative, and the expenditure for years to come may be subject to change. The Commission would refer the Honourable Member to the indicative financial statement which accompanied the initial proposal for the Kaleidoscope programme (COM (94) 356 final).