WRITTEN QUESTION E-0539/00 by Raffaele Costa (PPE-DE) to the Council. Pay of officials of the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Date: 2000-03-02
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Investment Bank, remuneration of work

6.3.2001

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Identifying the number of meetings attended by less than six experts and all separate arrangements would
require a lengthy and costly case-by-case research that the Commission is unable to undertake at the
present time because of other priorities.

The same applies to the request of the Honourable Member to provide a full list of the participants in
meetings whose travel expenses were reimbursed. In addition, the names of participants who are not
appointed personally as members have to be regarded as personal data within the meaning of Directive
95/46/EC of the Parliament and the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with
regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (2). Thus, by virtue of
it is required that the data subject (cid:145)unambiguously gives his or her
Article 7 lit. (a) of the Directive,
consent(cid:146) to the disclosure of the names. This would require multiple single procedures in order to receive
the consent of the several thousands of people participating in these meetings.

(1) OJ C 219 E, 1.8.2000, p. 138.
(2) OJ L 281, 23.11.1995.

(2001/C 72 E/003)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0539/00

by Raffaele Costa (PPE-DE) to the Council

(2 March 2000)

Subject: Pay of officials of the European Investment Bank (EIB)

The budget of the European Investment Bank (EIB) earmarks around ECU 129 million (ITL 250 billion) for
the salaries of just under 1 000 (998, to be exact) employees. This figure includes not only various senior
executives who apparently cost the institution around ECU 260 000 (ITL 500 million) per year, but also the
administrative rank and file.

Could the Council provide the following information:

1.

the composition of the EIB(cid:146)s management bodies,

2.

remuneration and tax treatment (gross and net pay, including additional benefits),

3.

the average total emoluments of senior executives (EIB staff),

4. whether it is true that, on the basis of the amount allocated across the board for the remuneration of
its c. 1 000 employees, the average cost to the EIB of salaries and other charges comes to ITL 250
million (c. € 130 million) per year per employee, or more than double the European average for bank
employees of roughly ITL 100 million per year (less than € 52 000 per annum),

5. whether it is true that members of the EIB(cid:146)s Management Committee receive a total of ITL 50 million

net per month,

6. whether it is true that directors-general receive ITL 40 million per month,

7. whether it is true that salaries are published only up to the level of head of division,

8. whether it is true that certain administrative staff are, for various reasons, in receipt of income of

around € 500 000 per annum (around ITL 1 billion) from the bank,

9. whether it would consider providing for a reduction of 30 % in the emoluments in question from

1 January 2000,

10. exactly how much all the administrative staff and other employees of the EIB have been paid in the

course of 1998?

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Reply

(18/19 September 2000)

The Council would draw the Honourable Member(cid:146)s attention to the fact that the European Investment
Bank, which is provided for in Article 266 of the Treaty establishing the European Community and the
members of which are the Member States, has legal personality.

The Bank is governed by a Statute, which is the subject of a Protocol annexed to the Treaty. Article 8 of
that Protocol provides that the Bank is directed and managed by a Board of Governors, a Board of
Directors and a Management Committee. The composition of those bodies is laid down in Articles 9, 11
and 13 of the Protocol on the Statute of the Bank.

The Statute also provides that the officials and other employees of the Bank are under the authority of the
President of the Management Committee and are engaged and discharged by him.

The Council therefore invites the Honourable Member to approach the European Investment Bank for the
specific information he requests.

(2001/C 72 E/004)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0554/00

by Theodorus Bouwman (Verts/ALE) and Karla Peijs (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(29 February 2000)

Subject: Hours of work for cockpit crew, air traffic safety and the internal market

On 21 January the Dutch TV programme (cid:145)Netwerk(cid:146) was devoted to the hours of work of aircraft cockpit
crew: very long periods of
fourteen hours or more are not an exception, particularly for charter
companies.

Recent research by the Deutsches Institut f(cid:252)r Luft- und Raumfahrt (German aerospace institute) in Cologne
has shown that excessively long hours of work jeopardise safety. Continuous periods of work longer than
ten hours at night and twelve hours during the day cause cockpit crew to become overfatigued and to lose
concentration.

Similar research by NASA in the USA confirms these findings and as a result the maximum working hours
are set at ten at night and twelve during the day for the entire United States.

The rules applied by the EU Member States differ. The rules in the Netherlands are generous, with a
maximum of sixteen hours and an additional one and a half hours for unforeseen circumstances.

(cid:129) Is the Commission familiar with the NASA and DLR research?

(cid:129) Does the Commission agree that given these research findings it would be irresponsible to allow

cockpit crew to work longer than the periods recommended by NASA and the DLR?

(cid:129) Does the Commission agree that the proper functioning of the internal market requires that all

Member Stares apply the same safety-based hours of work?

Point 5 of the explanatory statement to the Smet report (A5-0041/1999) on amending directive 93/104/
EC (1), concerns certain aspects of the organisation of working time, says that the Commission has
promised to submit a proposal for air crew.

(cid:129) Will the Commission also propose taking up the scientific recommendations mentioned above and

incorporating them out in the directive? If so, when?

(1) OJ L 307, 13.12.1993, p. 18.