WRITTEN QUESTION E-1202/02 by Nirj Deva (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Administration.
Date: 2002-04-26
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Commission, administration of the Institutions, administrator, in-service training, management training, personnel administration

5.12.2002

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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The terms, conditions and rewards of employment for Commissioners are a matter of public record and all
details have been given in answers to previous Parliamentary questions (i.e. written questions E-2046/99
by Mr Titford (1), E-2235/99 by Mr Huhne (2), and others) and elsewhere.

The legal basis for Commissioner’s salaries is set down in Council Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 422/
67/EEC, No 5/67/Euratom (3) and it determines the emoluments of the President, Vice-presidents and
Members of the Commission; the President, Judges, Advocates-General and Registrar of the Court of Justice
and of the President, Members and Registrar of the Court of First Instance (4).

(1) OJ C 221, 3.8.2000.
(2) OJ C 280, 3.10.2000.
(3) OJ L 187, 8.8.1967.
(4) As last amended by Council Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 2778/98 of 17 December 1998, OJ L 347,

23.12.1998.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-1202/02

by Nirj Deva (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(26 April 2002)

Subject: Administration

On 4 February 2000, Mr Horst Reichenbach, Director General Administration DG, was quoted by the
Commission en Direct as saying that all senior managers would be trained by 2002. What percentage of
DGs and Heads of Unit in the Commission have, in fact, been through the training programme?

Answer given by Mr Kinnock on behalf of the Commission

(10 June 2002)

The Honourable Member should note (cid:1) as essential background to the answer to his question (cid:1) that,
historically, the Commission has given relatively little attention to management training or to vocational
training in general. The result of
total
employment costs were accounted for by expenditure on training. Improvements on that have since been
made but, although the Reform commitment is to double training efforts over the next four years, that will
still leave investment in training in the Commission proportionally at around half of the level of the
average in Member State administrations.

in 1999 for instance, only around 0,05 % of

is that,

that

Since 2000 the Commission has substantially increased its investment in training for managers, including
managers at the most senior levels in the Institution. A range of training and developmental initiatives has
accordingly been put in place. The main Commission-wide initiatives (cid:1) together with approximate take-up
numbers in the period 2000-2002 for the levels of Director-General, Deputy Director-General, Director
and Unit Head (cid:1) are shown below.

Management training which has been organised and financed at the level of individual Directorates-General
(DGs) is not included in this list because there are fewer activities at that level. Management training given
to staff below the level of Unit Head comprises several thousand participant days per annum but it is not
included in the figures below.

Reform-Related Training for Management

Training is now underway to support implementation of central aspects of the Reform programme,
especially the new policies in work planning, human resources management and financial management.
These training initiatives involve all managers at Unit Head level and above in the Commission (around
1 200 personnel), without exception. Most of the eligible personnel required to attend several different
modules, depending on their particular responsibilities.

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Management Training Programme

Since 2001 an internal programme has been in place to develop the key management capacities which are
specific to the Commission. By the end of 2002, about 400 managers will have attended this eight-day
programme.

External Management Development Programme

In 2000 the Commission launched a programme to encourage its senior and middle managers to attend
appropriate training seminars in leading European Business Schools. By the end of 2002, some 120
officials at the level of Unit Head and higher will have benefited from this initiative.

Developmental Consultancy

An initiative was launched in 2000 to enable middle and senior staff to draw upon the support of
the
management consultants for short
Commission at DG, Directorate, Unit or team level. By the end of 2002, some 40 such assignments will
have been funded from the central training budget. Each assignment involves at least one manager, whilst
most assignments involve several.

term assignments designed to improve the functioning of

Individual Coaching

An initiative was launched in 2001 to give management level staff in the Commission access to individual
coaching in the context of implementing significant change in their areas of responsibility. By the end of
2002, 15 senior managers will have benefited from this facility.

Other relevant activities

There are other, smaller training and developmental
including
university fellowships and distance-learning programmes. In the period 2000-2002, over 100 Commission
managers will have benefited from such developmental facilities.

initiatives for Commission managers,

Overview

The above figures show that, as announced by the Director-General for Personnel and Administration in
2000, all management staff are participating to various degrees in the designated training on an
unprecedented scale. This coverage is due in part to the Reform-related training activities. Furthermore,
over 50 percent of the Commission’s management staff at the level of Unit Head and higher will have
taken part in intensive management training in the period 2000-2002. That pattern will, of course,
continue as a regular feature of Commission efforts to improve training for, and training in, the essential
skills of management.

(2002/C 301 E/108)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1203/02

by Phillip Whitehead (PSE) to the Commission

(26 April 2002)

Subject: Dog and cat fur

Given the interest shown by a number of Member States in enacting national provisions to prohibit the
abhorrent trade in domestic dog and cat fur, will the Commission seek to bring forth proposals at a
European level to ban the import, export and trade of these products?