Report on budgetary and financial management — Financial year 2006
Date: 2007-12-29
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: European Parliament, financial management, financial year, general budget (EU), implementation of the budget, report

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IV

(Notices)

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

REPORT ON BUDGETARY AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

SECTION I OF THE EU BUDGET

FINANCIAL YEAR 2006

(2007/C 318/01)

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN 2006 IN GENERAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.1.

1.2.

1.3.

1.4.

1.5.

1.6.

Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Initial budget and amending budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Commitments, payments and carryovers to 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Automatic and non-automatic carryovers to 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Appropriations from assigned revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.6.1.

1.6.2.

1.6.3.

1.6.4.

Use of provisional appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Property acquisition policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Information policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.7.

Cancellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1.1.

Chapter 10 ‘Members of the Institution’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1.2.

Chapter 12 ‘Officials and temporary staff’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1.3.

Chapter 14 ‘Other staff and outside services’

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2.1.4.

Chapter 16 ‘Other expenditure relating to persons working with the Institution’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1.5.

Chapter 20 ‘Buildings and associated costs’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1.6.

Chapter 21 ‘Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase, hire and maintenance’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1.7.

Chapter 23 ‘Current administrative expenditure’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1.8.

Chapter 30 ‘Meetings and conferences’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1.9.

Chapter 32 ‘Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving, production and dissemination’

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2.1.10. Chapter 40 ‘Expenditure relating to certain institutions and bodies’

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2.1.11. Chapter 42 ‘Expenditure relating to parliamentary assistance’

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2.1.12. Chapter 44 ‘Meetings and other activities of current and former Members’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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OBJECTIVES AND RESULTS ACHIEVED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3.1.

3.2.

3.3.

3.4.

Communication policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Enlargement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Better EU legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Better financial management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4.

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

1. Tables

Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

Table 4

Table 5

Table 6

Table 7

Table 8

Table 9

Use of 2006 appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Transfers by legal basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Use of Provisional Appropriations in Chapters 100 and 104 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Purpose of transfers of Provisional Appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Purpose of transfers in respect of buildings policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Use of Provisional Appropriations for the purpose of buildings policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

All appropriations transferred for the purpose of buildings policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Main sources for the ‘mopping up’ transfers C30 and C31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Transfers other than those from provisional appropriations for buildings or information policy .

Table 10

Evolution of 2006 and 2005 final appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Table 11

Staff by Directorate-General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Figures

Figure 1

Distribution of 2006 expenditure by chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Figure 2

Evolution of appropriations between 2005 and 2006 by chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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5.3.

ANNEXES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Summary of ‘C’ transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Summary of ‘P’ transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Implementation of 2006 appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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INTRODUCTION

This report presents the budgetary and financial management by
the European Parliament during financial year 2006. It outlines
the financial situation and the events which have had a significant
influence on activities during the year (in parts 1 and 2) and gives
a brief account of the achievement of the objectives for the year
(in part 3). The annual activity reports of the authorising officers
by delegation are transmitted to the budgetary authority
separately.

The report has been drawn up in accordance with Article 122 of
Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002
on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the
European Communities (OJ L 248, 16.9.2002) (1) (hereafter ‘Finan-
cial Regulation’ or ‘FR’), Article 185 of Commission Regulation (EC,

Euratom) No 2342/2002 of 23 December 2002 laying down
detailed rules for implementation of the Financial Regulation (2)
(hereafter ‘Implementing Rules’ or ‘IR’) and Article 13(2) of the
Internal Rules on the implementation of the European Parliament’s
budget (3).

1.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN 2006 IN GENERAL

2006 was the last financial year covered by the financial perspec-
tive for 2000-2006 (Agenda 2000) (4). Parliament’s final appro-
priations totalled € 1 321 600 000.

Table 1 below presents the implementation of the budget of the
European Parliament in financial year 2006:

Table 1

Use of 2006 appropriations

Appropriation type

€ or %

I. Appropriations 2006

Initial appropriations

Amending Budget

Final appropriations

II. Final appropriations 2006

Commitments

represent in % of final appropriations

Payments

represent in % of commitments

III. Carryovers to 2007

Automatic carryovers to 2007 (1)

represent in % of final appropriations

represent in % of commitments

Non-automatic carryovers (uncommitted appropriations carried over to 2007) (2)

represent in % of final appropriations

IV. Cancellations

Appropriations cancelled

represent in % of final appropriations

1 321 600 000

—

1 321 600 000

1 306 325 432

99 %

1 117 578 610

86 %

188 746 822

14 %

14 %

4 817 000

0,4 %

15 274 568

1 %

(1) As corrected by the Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom)
No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation appli-
cable to the general budget of the European Communities (OJ L 25,
30.1.2003, p. 43) as last amended by Council Regulation (EC, Eura-
tom) no 1995/2006 of 13 December 2006, (OJ L 390, 30.12.2006).

(2) As last amended by Commission Regulation (EC, EURATOM)
No 1248/2006 of 7 August 2006 amending Regulation (EC, Euratom)
No 2342/2002 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of
Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial
Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Commu-
nities. OJ L 227, 19.8.2006, p. 3

(3) PE 349.540/BUR/ANN/DEF.
(4) Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European
Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline
and improvement of the budgetary procedure (OJ C 172, 18.6.1999).

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Appropriation type

V. Carryovers to 2006

Automatic carryovers to 2006 (1)

Payments against these carryovers

represent in % of carryovers

Cancellation rate

VI. Assigned revenue appropriations in 2006

Appropriations from assigned revenue in 2006

Commitments

represent in % of appropriations from assigned revenue

Payments

represent in % of appropriations committed arising from assigned revenue

Available appropriations from assigned revenue in 2006

VII. Assigned revenue appropriations carried over to 2007

Appropriations from assigned revenue carried over to 2007

VIII. Assigned revenue appropriations carried over to 2006

Appropriations from assigned revenue carried over to 2006

Commitments

Payments

represent in % of the commitments

(1) Articles 9(1) and 9(4) of the Financial Regulation.
(2) Articles 9(1), 9(2)(a) and 9(5) of the Financial Regulation.

€ or %

307 163 636

285 578 104

93 %

21 585 532

40 017 311

30 778 877

77 %

5 858 229

19 %

9 238 434

34 831 297

32 288 714

32 054 298

31 086 918

97 %

1.1.

Revenue

1.4.

Automatic and non-automatic carryovers to 2006

Revenue entered in the initial budget (initial estimates) totalled
€ 99 025 664. Revenue entered in the accounts as at 31 Decem-
ber 2006 totalled € 126 126 604.

Automatic carryovers totalled € 307 163 636. Payments against
them equalled € 285 578 104, or 93 % (2005: 92,32 %).

1.2.

Initial budget and amending budget

Authorised appropriations in Parliament’s initial budget for 2006
totalled € 1 321 600 000, representing a 3,9 % increase over the
2005 budget (€ 1 272 000 000). No amending budget was intro-
duced in 2006.

1.3.

Commitments, payments and carryovers to 2007

Commitments totalled € 1 306 325 432, or 99 % of final appro-
priations (2005: 99 %). Payments totalled € 1 117 578 610,
or 86 % of commitments entered into (2005: 75,40 %). Auto-
matic carryovers to financial year 2007 totalled € 188 746 822,
or 14 % of the appropriations committed (2005: 24,59 %).
Uncommitted appropriations at year-end carried forward to
financial year 2007 totalled € 4 817 000, or 0,4 % of the final
appropriations (2005: 0,02 %).

Non-automatic carryovers totalled € 4 817 000 and were carried
over to Article 214 ‘Technical equipment and installations’.

1.5.

Appropriations from assigned revenue

Assigned revenue made available in 2006 totalled € 40 017 311
(2005: € 35 841 144). The commitment rate was 77 % (2005:
76 %). Payments totalled € 5 858 229, or 19 % of commitments
entered into (2005: 11,65 %). The balance of unpaid commit-
ments (€ 30 778 877 as compared with € 24 009 012 in 2005)
and available appropriations (€ 9 238 434 as compared with
€ 8 665 875 in 2005) were carried over to financial year 2007.
Together with the appropriations carried over from previous
years, total appropriations arising from assigned revenue and car-
ried over to 2007 amounted to € 34 831 297.

Assigned revenue carried over to 2006 totalled € 32 288 714
(2005: € 31 412 881). Commitments entered into totalled
€ 32 054 298 (2005: € 31 289 725), and payments in 2006 rep-
resented 97 % of commitments entered into (2005: 95 %).

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1.6.

Transfers

During the year, 29 C transfers were approved. Twenty of these
were authorised under Articles 24 (1) and 43 (2) of the Financial
Regulation. They totalled € 124 114 975, or 9 % of final appro-
priations (in 2005: 15 transfers accounting for 14 % of the final
appropriations). The year-end ‘mopping-up’
transfers, C30
and C31, are included in the above amount and involved a total
of € 37 246 425 (2005: € 124 144 556).

A further 7 C transfers under Article 22(2) (3) of the Financial
Regulation were approved by the President. They totalled

€ 7 666 300, or 1 % of final appropriations (2005: 12 C trans-
fers accounting for 1,67 % of final appropriations).

The President also authorised 8 P transfers under Article 22(1) (4)
of the Financial Regulation, totalling € 4 724 000 or 0,36 % of
the final appropriations (2005: 10 transfers accounting for 0,33 %
of the final appropriations).

In 2006, to sum up, there were 37 C and P transfers in total,
involving € 173 751 700, or 13 % of final appropriations (2005:
37 transfers accounting for € 203 902 174, or 16.13 % of final
appropriations).

Table 2

Transfers by legal basis

Amount

C transfers

7 666 300

Legal basis

Art. 22 FR (*)

Art. 22, 24 and 43 FR

37 246 425

Art. 24 and 43 FR

124 114 975

22,1

P transfers

4 724 000

C + P transfers

173 751 700

(*)

‘FR’ stands for the Financial Regulation.

As % of Final Appropriations

1 %

3 %

9 %

0,36 %

13 %

The transfers can be grouped under the following headings:

1.6.1. Use of provisional appropriations

1.6.1. Use of provisional appropriations

1.6.2. Property acquisition policy

1.6.3.

Information policy

1.6.4. Other transfers

(1) Budgetary authority decision.
(2) Budgetary authority decision for transfers involving provisions.
(3) Decision by the institution, after notification of the budgetary author-
ity, for transfers from one title to another (capped at 10 % of the
appropriations for the financial year), from one chapter to another,
and from one article to another.

This section looks at the use of appropriations from Chapter 100
‘Provisional appropriations’ and Chapter 104 ‘Reserve for infor-
mation and communication policy’. However, the use of appro-
priations from these two chapters as well as from chapter 2009
‘Provisional appropriation to cover the Institution’s property
investments’ to acquire immovable property is discussed under
section 1.6.2. Property acquisition policy. These chapters,
included in Title X ‘Other expenditure’, are referred further in this
report as ‘provisional appropriations’.

(4) Decision by the institution for transfers within an article.

Use of Provisional Appropriations in Chapters 100 and 104 (1)

Table 3

From item

To item

Heading

1610

Expenditure on recruitment

1612

Further training

Appropriations
transferred to item
from provisional
appropriations

Other
appropriations
transferred to
item

Initial
appropriation

Appropriation after
transfers

Transfer (2)

73 000

405 000

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—

290 000

363 000

2 640 000

3 045 000

1402/01 Conference interpreters: interpreters and conference technicians

10 000 000

6 200 000

29 490 000

45 690 000

C2

1420/01 Outside services: translation of the Verbatim Report of Proceedings

2 000 000

600 000

3 948 000

6 548 000

Chapter 100

2000/02 Rent: Strasbourg

2007/03

Fitting-out of premises: Brussels

2100/05

Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and software, and related
work: purchase,
infrastructure and
replacement and maintenance of
development software

2140/12

Technical equipment and installations: audiovisual — D5 Building

Chapter 104

3248/03

Expenditure on audiovisual information: Web TV

(1) This table summarises use of appropriations from Chapters 100 and 104 except in respect of buildings policy.
(2) Only for appropriations transferred to item from provisional appropriations.

2 000 000

8 000 000

4 000 000

2 600 000

1 000 000

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—

—

—

13 774 408

15 774 408

4 135 000

12 135 000

3 470 000

7 470 000

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—

2 600 000

1 000 000

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The appropriations were released from Chapters 100 and 104 after the information requested by Parliament
had been forwarded to the Committee on Budgets, or the Bureau had taken a decision (1), or positive recom-
mendations of the Conference of Presidents and of the Bureau (2) had been received in connection with the
purpose of the transfer as presented in Table 4:

Table 4

Purpose of transfers of Provisional Appropriations

Item/Sub-Item

1402/01

1420/01

1610

1612

Amount trans-
ferred

10 000 000

2 000 000

73 000

405 000

2000/02

2 000 000

2007/03

8 000 000

2100/05

4 000 000

2140/12

2 600 000

Purpose of transfer

Transfer

Improvement of language support and availability of interpre-
tation facilities for political groups and their working parties;

Further progress in reducing the vacancy rate of new posts cre-
ated for the period 2003-2005

C2

Updated plan for acquisition of property in the short and
including options to purchase premises for
medium term,
Information Offices and Europe Houses

Update plans for fitting out of premises and decision not to
build two meeting rooms in Strasbourg

Information and communication technology projects includ-
ing the new electronic voting system

The purchase of the first part of audiovisual equipment for the
D5 building

C24

C8

C26

C13

3248/03

1 000 000

Information and communication policy and Web-TV

1.6.2. Property acquisition policy

This paragraph concerns the use of appropriations in Chapter 100 ‘Provisional appropriations’, Chapter 104
‘Reserve for information and communication policy’ and Item 2009 ‘Provisional appropriation to cover the
Institution’s property investments’ in connexion with buildings policy. It also looks at transfers from other
items for this purpose.

Four C transfers totalling € 124 071 425 were used to reinforce a number of budgetary lines in the area of
property policy, making possible the following transactions, as presented in Table 5:

Table 5

Purpose of transfers in respect of buildings policy

Item/Sub-Item

Amount trans-
ferred

Purpose of transfer

Transfer

2003

2008

2007/04

2008

2003

5 750 000

550 000

300 000

7 100 000

Purchase of a building in Nicosia 30, Vyronos (Byron) Street,
permitting the establishment of a European Union House,
jointly with the European Commission

Consulting fees for extension project of the Konrad Adenauer
building in Luxembourg

63 125 000

The purchase of the WIC/SDM/IPE3 buildings in Strasbourg

10 000 000

Advance payments against the annual lease payments due for
the D4 and D5 Buildings under construction in Brussels

2001/03

31 523 602

To part-finance the D4/D5 Buildings currently under construc-
tion in Brussels

5 722 823

Further advance payments against the annual lease payments
due for the D4/D5 Buildings under construction in Brussels

C5

C10

C18

C19

C30

C31

(1) Item 2007/03, transfer C24.
(2) Item 3248/03, transfer C13.

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Of the € 124 071 425 transferred in support of buildings policy, over 30 % (€ 38 603 580) came from pro-
visional appropriations. Fuller details of the use of provisional appropriations for the purpose of buildings
policy are provided in Table 6.

A summary of all transfers for buildings policy is given in Table 7 below. The first ‘mopping-up’ transfer C30
yielded € 31 523 602 and the second, C31, an additional € 5 722 823. Both were used for an advance pay-
ment on the D4/D5 buildings in Brussels.

The main sources of the appropriations ‘mopped up’, together with the main reasons for their availability, are
shown in Table 8 below.

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Table 6

From item

To item

Heading (to item)

2009

2003

Acquisition of immovable property

Chapter 104

2003

Acquisition of immovable property

Appropriation
transferred to item
from provisional
appropriations

Other
appropriations
transferred to
item

5 750 000

4 500 000

15 500 000

—

—

2003 Total

25 750 000

43 125 000

2008

Other expenditure on buildings

2009

2007/04

Fitting-out of premises: Information offices

Chapter 100

2001/03

Annual lease payments: Brussels

Chapter 104

2001/03

Annual lease payments: Brussels

2008 Total

2007/04 Total

550 000

3 900 000

4 450 000

300 000

300 000

7 203 580

900 000

—

3 200 000

1 736 887

—

—

—

—

2 000 000

Initial
appropriation

Appropriation
after transfer

Transfer

—

—

—

—

—

5 750 000

4 500 000

15 500 000

68 875 000

2 286 887

3 900 000

9 386 887

2 300 000

7 203 580

900 000

C5

C18

C18

C5

C10

C5

C19

C30

Total transferred from provisional appropriations

38 603 580

2001/03 Total

8 103 580

39 142 845

1 136 000

48 382 425

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Table 7

Heading

Appropriation transferred

Initial appropriation

Appropriation after transfer

Transfer

Annual lease payments: Brussels

47 246 425

1 136 000

48 382 425

mopping up (C30, C31) and C19

To item

2001/03

2003

2007/04

Acquisition
property

of

immovable

Fitting-out
of
Information offices

premises:

2008

Other expenditure on buildings

Total

68 875 000

—

68 875 000

300 000

7 650 000

124 071 425

2 000 000

1 736 887

4 872 887

2 300 000

9 386 887

C5, C18

C5

C5, C10

Table 8

Main sources for the ‘mopping up’ transfers C30 and C31

Source Area

Current administrative expenditure

Staff

Buildings

Provisional appropriations

Members of the institution

Other

Amount [€]

13 061 673

8 141 800

6 883 000

5 805 052

2 148 600

1 206 300

%

35 %

22 %

18 %

16 %

6 %

3 %

Main reasons

Savings in telecommunications, IT and postage, less expenditure for the Official Journal, new regulation
for visitors was only applicable for the last half year

The rate of recruitment has been lower than expected, impact of new Staff Regulation

Including € 2,8 m rent savings following the purchase of buildings; repayment of insurance fees

Balance of the contingency and information policy provisional appropriations

Slightly lower attendance rate than foreseen and technical surpluses

—

Total

37 246 425

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1.6.3.

Information policy

As shown in Table 3 above, an amount of € 3 600 000 was released from the provisional appropriations by
transfers C13 and C26 for the purpose of information policy to permit the purchase of audiovisual equipment
for the new audio-visual centre in the D5 building as well as to launch the Web-TV prototype project.

1.6.4. Other transfers

The justification for other transfers which took place in 2006 is presented in Table 9 below. Those transfers
involved appropriations totalling € 14 878 275.

Transfers other than those from provisional appropriations for buildings or information policy

Table 9

Item/Sub-item

Amount transferred

Purpose

Transfer

402

442

1 637 658

to enable the Parliament
European-level political parties applying for grants for 2006.

to take into account

the increased number of

41 300

to amalgamate the two contributions granted in the past
Parliamentary Association in only one

to European

Chapter 101

1 003 317

the follow-up of transfer C1/2006 that was authorised earlier

2102/07

400 000

additional expenditure necessary to implement the first stage of the Streamline
project.

1402/01

6 200 000

to cover the supplementary expenditure due to the higher than envisaged increase
of requests for interpretation and to the adaptation of the mission expenses

102

1220

120 000

expenditure for additional requests for end-of-service allowances by former
Members of Parliament.

35 000

applying Art. 50 of the Staff Regulations (1)

2026/03

1 161 000

the additional expenditure arising from the extension of the service in view of
raising the security level in Brussels.

3200/08

107 000

the additional expenditure for an inter-institutional call for tender with the
Commission the security needs of all the Information offices.

2102/03

1613

3000/01

2024/03

1420/01

1420/02

2370/01

3040

105

1004/02

1032

108 000

120 000

650 000

600 000

600 000

1 100 000

the additional expenditure for the installation of 10 interactive multilingual
terminals on a trial basis in Brussels.

additional expenditure following the increase of the mission allowances for officials
following adoption of new rules by Council.

additional expenditure on energy for Brussels due to the increased energy
consumption and the strong price rise.

additional expenditure arising from the increase in the number of translated pages
and in translation costs.

100 000

additional expenditure following the occupation of new offices.

180 000

expenditure for the refreshments service for official and working meetings in the
Institution.

150 000

expenditure for the language courses for the Members of the European Parliament.

365 000

additional expenditure following the authorisation of new missions for Members.

200 000

additional expenditure following the death of several Members.

C1

C3

C6

C9

C11

C12

C14

C15

C16

C17

C20

C21

C22

C23

C25

C27

C28

C29

Total

14 878 275

(1) Regulation No 31 (EEC), 11 (EAEC) laying down Staff Regulations of Officials and Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Economic Community and
the European Atomic Energy Community (OJ P 45, 14.6.1962, p. 1385) as last amended by Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 31/2005 of 20.12.2004 (OJ L 8, 12.1.2005,
p. 1) and last corrected by Corrigendum (OJ L 51, 24.2.2005, p. 28) (Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 723/2004).

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1.7.

Cancellations

Appropriations totalling € 15 274 568 were cancelled.

2.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Table 10 below sets out, chapter by chapter, how final appropriations in 2006 were used by comparison with
financial year 2005.

As from 2006 a new nomenclature was applied following a significant revision. In Table 10, the 2005 appro-
priations are presented according to the 2006 nomenclature.

Table 10

Evolution of 2006 and 2005 final appropriations

Chapter

Heading

2005
[€]

2006
[€]

Change
[€]

% Change

20

21

23

10

12

14

16

Members of the institution

137 720 744

135 807 540

– 1 913 204

Officials and temporary staff

401 391 310

434 244 341

32 853 031

Other staff and outside services

82 855 725

95 661 048

12 805 323

Other expenditure relating to persons working with
the institution

7 968 679

10 847 308

2 878 629

Title I

Persons working with the institution

629 936 458

676 560 237

46 623 779

Buildings and associated costs

276 089 079

256 044 533

– 20 044 546

Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase,
hire and maintenance

88 916 473

101 593 057

12 676 584

– 1 %

8 %

15 %

36 %

7 %

– 7 %

14 %

Current administrative expenditure

12 788 392

10 962 220

– 1 826 172

– 14 %

Title II

Buildings, furniture, equipment and miscella-
neous operating expenditure

377 793 944

368 599 810

– 9 194 134

– 2 %

30

32

Meetings and conferences

23 111 200

26 882 835

3 771 635

Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving,
production and dissemination

47 623 580

57 712 477

10 088 897

16 %

21 %

Title III

Expenditure resulting from general functions car-
ried out by the institution

70 734 780

84 595 312

13 860 532

20 %

40

42

44

Expenditure relating to certain institutions and bod-
ies

54 770 000

57 934 341

3 164 341

Expenditure relating to parliamentary assistance

130 609 540

133 689 000

3 079 460

6 %

2 %

Meetings and other activities of current and former
members

180 000

221 300

41 300

23 %

Title IV

Expenditure resulting from special functions car-
ried out by the institution

185 559 540

191 844 641

6 285 101

Title X

Other expenditure

—

—

—

Total

1 264 024 722

1 321 600 000

57 575 278

3 %

—

5 %

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Final appropriations by chapter were distributed as shown in Figure 1:

Figure 1

Distribution of 2006 expenditure by chapter

‘Other’ consists of chapter 30 ‘Meetings and conferences’, chapter 23 ‘Current administrative expenditure’, chapter 16 ‘Other expen-

Note:
diture relating to persons working with the Institution’ and chapter 44 ‘Meetings and other activities of current and former Members’.

Evolution of appropriations between 2005 and 2006 by chapter

Figure 2

Note:

For the headings of the chapters as well as the definition of the term ‘other’ please refer to Figure 1.

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It should be noted that four chapters accounted for over 70 % of
final appropriations. They are: Chapter 12 ‘Officials and tempo-
rary staff’, Chapter 20 ‘Buildings and associated costs’, Chapter 10
‘Members of the institution’ and Chapter 42 ‘Expenditure relating
to parliamentary assistance’.

Three chapters making up Title IV, namely Chapter 40 ‘Expendi-
ture relating to certain institutions and bodies’, Chapter 42 ‘Expen-
diture relating to parliamentary assistance’ and Chapter 44
‘Meetings and other activities of current and former Members’,
were created in 2006 as part of the change in nomenclature.

2.1.1. Chapter 10 ‘Members of the Institution’

This chapter accounted for 10 % of the 2006 budget.

53 % of the expenditure was from Item 1004 ‘Travel and subsis-
tence allowances, attendance at meetings and associated expendi-
ture’ whereas 25 % came from Item 1006 ‘General expenditure
allowance’.

DG for Finance

Legal Service

Other

The situation between 2005 and 2006 was rather stable for this
chapter.

Table 11

Staff by Directorate-General

Situation of statutory staff as at 1.1.2007

DG

DG for Translation and Publishing

DG for Infrastructure and Interpretation

DG for Presidency

DG for Information

DG for Internal Policies

DG for Personnel

DG for External Policies

Staff

1 305

807

617

576

358

329

153

144

74

730

%

26 %

16 %

12 %

11 %

7 %

6 %

3 %

3 %

1 %

14 %

100 %

Total

5 093

For Item 1004, the initial appropriation was € 73 151 000 and
the final appropriation was € 72 016 000. This covered travel
and subsistence allowances for Members’ attendance at meetings
and associated expenditure: part-sessions, meetings of committees
(Sub-
and their delegations, meetings of political groups
Item 1004/01), meetings of standing parliamentary delegations
and of bodies provided for in the ACP-EU Convention and in the
agreement
Forum
(Sub-Item 1004/02).

Euro-Mediterranean

establishing

the

In 2006, Members carried out 12 655 journeys for attendance at
part-sessions in Strasbourg and Brussels, 17 741 for meetings of
committees in Brussels and 5 400 for meetings of political groups
in Brussels. As regards travel outside Parliament’s usual work-
places, there were 1 038 journeys for meetings of committees and
1 048 for meetings of political groups. There were also 1 020
journeys for meetings of parliamentary delegations.

2.1.2. Chapter 12 ‘Officials and temporary staff’

This chapter accounted for 33 % of the 2006 budget.

The 8 % increase between 2005 and 2006 in this chapter can be
largely explained by salary adaptations, promotions and step
advances, changes in the establishment plan voted by the budget-
ary authority and re-grading of certain temporary agent posts.

For Item 1200, the initial appropriation was € 452 168 775 and
the final appropriation was € 418 825 076. The reasons for this
reduction during the year are set out below.

First, as regards vacant posts, the rate of successful recruitment to
EUR-10 enlargement posts (in the General Secretariat) stood at
the end of 2006 at around 87 %. This suggests that the abatement
(15 %) applied to these posts in the estimates corresponded
largely to the reality. The vacancy levels for other posts were,
however, higher than foreseen (10 % rather than the 7 % fixed as
a flat-rate abatement). While vacancy levels dropped somewhat in
the General Secretariat, they remained high in the political groups,
which had difficulties both with enlargement recruitments and
with the rather more demanding selection procedures imposed by
the new Staff Regulations. Political group vacancies amounted at
year-end to 3.5 % of the total number of posts.

Secondly, there was the impact of the new Staff Regulations. The
2006 estimates were drawn up at a time when the institution had
only limited experience of the new Staff Regulations, which intro-
duced significant changes (many of them having downward
impact) in the area of ancillary allowances and entitlements. Sub-
sequent experience suggested that the downward impact of these
changes had been underestimated, hence real spending was lower
than forecast.

In this chapter, 96 % of expenditure relates to Item 1200 ‘Offi-
cials and temporary staff: remuneration and allowances’. In 2006,
505 posts were published; 413 officials and temporary agents
were recruited for the administration and 33 for political groups.
The General Secretariat employed around 5 000 officials and tem-
porary staff-members in 2006. The distribution of staff by
Directorate-General (DG) is shown in Table 11.

Thirdly, the 2006 estimates were established on the basis of the
old nomenclature. The margins built into each separate item of
the old nomenclature to cater for the unpredictable nature of staff
expenditure have been merged in the new Item 1200. This is a
transitory phenomenon, since the new structure should enable
these margins to be reduced.

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2.1.3. Chapter 14 ‘Other staff and outside services’

For Item 1612, initial appropriations were € 2 640 000 and final
appropriations € 3 045 000. In 2006, this covered:

This chapter accounted for 7 % of the 2006 budget.

The 15 % increase between 2005 and 2006 was largely due to
sustained recruitment of Bulgarian and Romanian contract agents
in preparation for the EUR-2 enlargement.

In this chapter the majority of spending comes from two items,
namely Item 1402 ‘Conference interpreters’ (45 % of the chapter)
and Item 1400 ‘Other staff’ (29 % of the chapter).

For Item 1402, initial appropriations equalled € 29 590 000 and
final appropriations € 45 153 200. This covers, among other
things: the fees, social security contributions, travel expenses and
subsistence allowances of auxiliary conference interpreters used
by Parliament, expenditure on conference agencies, technicians
and administrators used to service the above meetings and ser-
vices provided to Parliament by interpreters who are officials or
temporary staff-members in other institutions, and language-
related inter-institutional cooperation.

The total number of meetings with interpretation over the whole
of 2006 was 4 180 at the three working places and 218 else-
where. That represents 91 443 interpretation days, or an increase
of 7 % over 2005, 45 723 of which were accounted for by exter-
nal conference interpreters (AIC).

Item 1400 serves essentially to finance contract staff and session
auxiliaries. The structure of spending has been undergoing
changes, since,
in addition to contract staff recruited under
Article 3b of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of
the European Community (CEOS), the previous regime govern-
ing the population of session auxiliaries ceased to exist as of
1 January 2007. The budget also covers 136 Romanian and Bul-
garian staff and a further 136 staff recruited in accordance with
Article 3a of the CEOS.

2.1.4. Chapter 16 ‘Other expenditure relating to persons working with

the Institution’

This chapter accounted for 1 % of the 2006 budget.

The 36 % increase between 2005 and 2006 was mainly due to the
Early Childhood Centre and day nurseries in Brussels.

45 % of the final appropriations in this chapter relate to Item 1654
‘Early Childhood Centre and approved day nurseries’, a further
28 % to Item 1612 ‘Further training’ and 10 % to Item 1613 ‘Fur-
ther training: mission expenses’.

For Item 1654, initial appropriations were € 7 508 708 and final
appropriations € 4 543 708. Appropriations for Item 1654/01
‘Early Childhood Centre and approved day nurseries: outside
management of Parliament’s day nursery and family room in
Brussels and ancillary expenditure’ have been increasing steadily
because of expenditure related to the new Wayenberg crèche in
Brussels.

— further professional training and retraining courses, includ-
ing language courses run on an inter-institutional basis. In
duly justified cases, some of the appropriations were used to
cover the organisation of courses within the institution. The
language courses run in Brussels were also open to parlia-
mentary assistants in Brussels;

— expenditure relating to the purchase or production of
teaching materials and to the performance of specific stud-
ies by specialists for devising and implementing training
programmes;

— professional training courses to raise awareness about mat-
ters concerning disabled people and training measures in
connection with equal opportunities and careers advice, with
particular reference to skill profiles;

— mission costs.

As regards professional training in 2006, there were among oth-
ers 5 862 language courses, 2 720 IT courses, 864 courses con-
cerning financial training and 300 courses organised by the
European Administration School.

For Item 1613, initial appropriations equalled € 975 000 and
final appropriations € 1 095 000. This item finances missions
undertaken in connexion with professional training, the cost of
which was affected upwards by the new daily allowances intro-
duced by Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1066/2006 (1).

In light of the increasing importance of the external offices in the
context of a new information policy, and the additional human
resources made available to them by the budgetary authority, a
training scheme for the staff concerned, involving periods spent
in Brussels familiarising themselves with the workings of the insti-
tution, was also developed. The revised training policy adopted by
the Bureau also led to an increase in the overall number of
missions.

2.1.5. Chapter 20 ‘Buildings and associated costs’

This chapter accounted for 19 % of the 2006 budget.

The 7 % decrease between 2005 and 2006 results from the
decrease on Article 200 ‘Buildings’.

(1) OJ L 194, 14.7.2006.

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In this chapter, 27 % of the spending comes from Item 2003
‘Acquisition of immovable property’, 19 % from Item 2001
‘Annual lease payments’, 14 % from Item 2000 ‘Rent’ and 13 %
from Item 2026 ‘Security and surveillance of buildings’. The
remaining expenditure is mostly on cleaning and maintenance
(Item 2022), fitting-out of premises (Item 2007) and energy con-
sumption (Item 2024).

— better monitoring of office system maintenance expenditure;

— ELectronic Voting and Information System project (ELVIS)
for Chamber modernisation in connection with the informa-
tion system on voting in the Chambers; new video services,
streaming, etc.; electronic signature, etc.

Item 2003 initially had only a token entry, whereas the final
appropriations amounted to € 68 875 000. This covered the pur-
chase of the Winston Churchill (WIC), Salvador de Madariaga
(SDM) and IPE3 buildings in Strasbourg and of the premises of
Parliament’s external office in Nicosia.

For Item 2102

— broadening the scope of Computer Centre activity; adminis-
tration of the new documentary management software pack-
age; increase in supplier support;

For Item 2001, initial appropriations came to € 1 136 000 and
final appropriations to € 48 382 425. This item provided the
financial resources necessary for an advance payment on the
annuity for the D4/D5 buildings in Brussels.

— annual increase in maintenance as a result of adding appli-
cations developed in the previous year to the portfolio of
applications to be maintained;

For Item 2000, initial appropriations stood at € 39 426 776 and
final appropriations at € 36 346 776. Purchase of the WIC, SDM
and IPE 3 buildings in Strasbourg led to a saving on this item in
respect of rents for the 4th quarter of 2006 (€ 2 255 000). Simi-
larly, purchase of the buildings in Copenhagen, The Hague, Nico-
sia and Valetta generated savings (€ 500 000) in rents. Late
occupation of the premises in Warsaw led to lower than forecast
recurrent expenditure (€ 130 000); while the use of assigned rev-
enue made it possible to liberate € 120 000 of 2006
appropriations.

For Item 2007, initial appropriations came to € 11 415 000 and
final appropriations to € 19 295 000. The appropriation was
used for works in Brussels including, among others, refurbish-
ment of the self-service canteen, access facilities for the disabled,
the Hall of the ASP building and the fixed link between the ASP
and the D4/D5 buildings.

2.1.6. Chapter 21 ‘Data processing, equipment and furniture: pur-

chase, hire and maintenance’

This chapter accounted for 8 % of the 2006 budget.

The 14 % increase between 2005 and 2006 in this chapter can
largely be explained by an increase on two articles: Article 210
‘Equipment, operating costs and services relating to data process-
ing and telecommunications’ and Article 214 ‘Technical equip-
ment and installations’. Les grandes évolutions de crédits
intervenues en 2006 par rapport à 2005 sont justifiées par les
principaux facteurs suivants:

For Item 2100

— lower than expected volume of support requirements for
using open-source software as a result of introducing a rig-
orous technical framework for applications development
and ‘best user practices’ rules.

In this chapter 39 % of the expenditure is from Item 2100 ‘Pur-
chase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and software, and
related work’, 30 % from Item 2102 ‘Outside assistance in con-
nection with the operation, development and maintenance of
software systems’ and 22 % from Article 214 ‘Technical equip-
ment and installations’.

For Item 2100, initial appropriations amounted to € 38 090 062
and final appropriations to € 39 382 062. This appropriation
covered mainly expenditure on the purchase, hire, servicing and
maintenance of equipment and software for the institution, and
related work. This equipment and software relates essentially to
systems at the data-processing and telecommunications centre,
computing at departmental level and in the political groups, and
the electronic voting system.

For Item 2102, initial appropriations equalled € 29 099 829 and
final appropriations € 30 607 829. They principally covered the
cost of outside assistance from service bureaux and data-
processing consultants in connection with the operation of the
data-processing centre and the network, the production and
maintenance of applications, support for users, including Mem-
bers and political groups, the carrying out of studies, and the
drawing-up and input of technical documentation.

For Item 2140, initial appropriations amounted to € 21 567 116
and final appropriation to € 22 314 166. This covered among
other things the purchase, hire, maintenance and repair of tech-
nical equipment and installations relating to the equipment for
the audiovisual sector in the D5 building.

— rewiring of buildings in Brussels and Strasbourg; wiring of
Information Offices; installation of telephony, cable relay
and videoconferencing facilities in Brussels; increase in Com-
puter Centre capacity; e-mail developments;

2.1.7. Chapter 23 ‘Current administrative expenditure’

This chapter accounted for 1 % of the 2006 budget.

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The 14 % decrease in this chapter between 2005 and 2006 was
due mainly to decreased expenditure for Article 230 ‘Stationery,
office
and for
Article 236 ‘Postage on correspondence and delivery charges’.

and miscellaneous

consumables’

supplies

62 % of the expenditure in this chapter came from Article 235
‘Telecommunications’ and 19 % from Article 230 ‘Stationery,
office supplies and miscellaneous consumables’.

Initial appropriations for Article 235 amounted to € 8 275 000
and final appropriations to € 6 850 000. The appropriation for
Article 235 was used among other things for upgrading the EPI-
NET HD network to 10 Gigabits/s, increasing the throughput of
Internet links and incorporating political group telephone use.
Bandwidth increases for both Internet and Information Office
connections were negotiated on a constant-price basis and no fur-
ther use was made of the remote access service.

For Article 230, initial appropriations came to € 3 132 220 and
final appropriations to € 1 891 220.

2.1.8. Chapter 30 ‘Meetings and conferences’

This chapter accounted for 2 % of the 2006 budget.

expenditure on meetings’. The

The increase of 21 % between 2005 and 2006 was due to an
increase for Article 300 ‘Staff mission expenses’ and Article 304
‘Miscellaneous
in
Article 304 resulted from creation of new sub-items as part of the
change in nomenclature. In 2005, the expenditure was covered by
Item 1004 ‘Travel and subsistence allowances, attendance at
meetings and associated expenditure’.

change

78 % of the chapter’s appropriations are intended primarily for
Article 300 ‘Staff mission expenses’.

For Article 300, initial appropriations came to € 20 867 935 and
final appropriations to € 21 067 935. This appropriation covered
expenditure on transport costs, daily mission allowances and
ancillary or exceptional expenses incurred in the performance of
a mission, including those relating to tickets and reservations.

There were 27 824 missions in 2006 covering 87 973 days: Most
of the missions were between Parliament’s three places of work
(Brussels: 5 278 missions, Strasbourg 19 932 missions and Lux-
embourg 2 134 missions)

36 % of the chapter’s appropriations relate to Item 3244 ‘Organi-
sation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola programme
and invitations to opinion multipliers from third countries’, a fur-
ther 17 % relate to Item 3242 ‘Expenditure on publication, infor-
mation and participation in public events’, and 15 % concern
Item 3248 ‘Expenditure on audiovisual information’.

For Item 3244, initial appropriations totalled € 23 920 000 and
final appropriations € 20 854 382. During 2006, the European
Parliament welcomed some 170 000 visitors to its premises in
Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg.

For Item 3242, initial appropriations amounted to € 9 870 000
and final appropriations to € 9 830 032. These means covered, in
particular, expenditure on publications, including electronic pub-
lications, information activities, and participation in public events,
trade fairs and exhibitions in the European Union Member States
and the accession countries.

As far as the organisation of the events is concerned, a number of
events was organised, including for example European Day for
the Victims of Terrorism (600 young people participating and
substantial coverage in Spain, France and the UK; the Juanes con-
cert against landmines which attracted some 1 300 visitors and
wide media coverage; and the exhibition to mark the 20th anni-
versary of the accession of Spain and Portugal to the EU, which
was opened by Presidents Borrell and Barroso together with Prime
Ministers Zapatero and Socrates and which also attracted wide-
spread interest.

As regards publications, well over a million copies were produced,
including re-prints of the European Parliament brochure and of
the Troubled Waters cartoon. In addition, stickers, leaflets, post-
ers and placemats to promote the new website were issued.

For Item 3248, initial appropriations totalled € 8 650 000 and
final appropriations € 8 501 000. Among other things, this cov-
ered expenditure relating to the Web TV project.

Live streaming over Internet was used for all plenary meetings in
2006; 24 other meetings and events were also relayed over
Internet.

2.1.10. Chapter 40 ‘Expenditure relating to certain institutions and

bodies’

2.1.9. Chapter 32 ‘Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving,

production and dissemination’

This chapter accounted for 4 % of the 2006 budget.

This chapter accounted for 4 % of the 2006 budget.

The 21 % increase between 2005 and 2006 in this chapter arose
from the increase on Article 324 ‘Production and dissemination’.

The increase of 6 % on this chapter between 2005 and 2006
resulted from the increase on Article 400 ‘Current administrative
expenditure and expenditure relating to the political and informa-
tion activities of the political groups and non-attached Members’.

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84 % of its appropriations relate to Article 400 ‘Current admin-
istrative expenditure and expenditure relating to the political and
information activities of the political groups and non-attached
Members’.
item totalled €
49 622 000 and final appropriations € 48 706 000.

Initial appropriations

this

for

2.1.11. Chapter 42 ‘Expenditure relating to parliamentary assistance’

This chapter accounted for 10 % of the 2006 budget.

Article 422 ‘Parliamentary assistance’ accounts for 99,7 % of its
appropriations. Initial appropriations for Article 422 amounted
to € 136 289 000 and final appropriations to € 133 689 000.

The situation between 2005 and 2006 was rather stable in this
chapter.

2.1.12. Chapter 44 ‘Meetings and other activities of current and former

Members’

As regards multilingualism, Parliament’s Europarl website is pub-
lished in 22 official EU languages. All the part-sessions in 2006
were covered by LIVE streaming on Internet in all EU languages.
Other important meetings and events were also retransmitted on
the Internet.

Work on the major communication projects: EP Web-TV Chan-
nel, the Visitors’ Centre and installation of audio-visual equipment
in the new D5 building was pursued intensively and reached cru-
cial stages of development. Each task involved complex and
including the launch of
detailed planning and programming,
lengthy tendering procedures and detailed reporting for the
decision-making process.

This chapter accounted for 0,02 % of the budget.

3.2.

Enlargement

The 23 % increase in this chapter between 2005 and 2006
resulted from an increase in Article 442 ‘Cost of meetings and
other activities of
the European Parliamentary Association’.
Article 442 accounted for 55 % of the expenditure under this
chapter. Initial appropriations equalled € 80 000 and final appro-
priations € 121 300.

3.

OBJECTIVES AND RESULTS ACHIEVED

This part of the report outlines briefly the objectives of the Gen-
eral Secretariat 2006 as well as measures taken to achieve them.
These are presented more fully in the annual activity reports of
the authorising officers by delegation.

3.1.

Communication policy

This objective included making the Parliament a focal point for
debate on the future of Europe, further developing multilingual-
ism and progressing with the major communications projects
(web TV, internet and visitors’ centre).

Concerning the debate on the future of Europe, Citizens’ Forums
were organised by the Information Offices in the Member States
concerned. The aim was to engage in a series of debates, to enable
as wide a cross-section of European citizens as possible to partici-
pate, make their views and concerns known and give them the
chance to have their say on the future of Europe. Raising subjects
that are of particular relevance to the region or country is a key
part of the approach. The aim is to be as inclusive as possible —
with the general public, members of the European Parliament,
local politicians, national MPs, civil society groups and the media
all being involved. Debates were held on the following subjects:
enlargement of the European Union. globalisation and the Euro-
pean social model, social and economic policies,
industrial
restructuring and its effects, maritime issues, people’s expectations
from Europe and increasing awareness of the role of the Parlia-
ment, EU membership in the regional context, labour market
policies, the fight against international criminality, the EU bud-
get, regional policy, the CAP, equality and education.

This objective included in particular completing recruitment of
staff, especially linguists, from all 10 new Member States and
paving the way for the successful integration of Bulgaria and
Romania.

As regards the recruitment of officials and temporary staff to
posts earmarked for the EU 10 Member States, around 1 000
posts have been created since 2003 and 87 % of them were filled
by the end of 2006 (1). As far as the EU 2 enlargement is con-
cerned, the 113 posts created in 2006 have all been filled. It
proved possible to cover the immediate staffing needs arising
from the attendance of the 53 Bulgarian and Romanian Observ-
ers at the meetings of the European Parliament during the whole
of 2006.

As far as interpretation is concerned, EU 10 language needs were
covered satisfactorily and in full for plenary sittings in 2006; cov-
erage matched requests during weeks set aside for the political
groups, but remained incomplete in committee/delegation meet-
ing weeks. Adjudication was necessary to allocate resources still
characterised by a shortage of interpreters, particularly for Latvian,
Slovak and Slovene. As far as Maltese is concerned, it proved dif-
ficult to recruit qualified interpreters. It was normally possible to
cover plenary sittings with free-lance interpreters, but not to meet
all requests for interpretation into this language.

(1) Situation on 30.11.2006; the figure includes recruitment procedures

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Regarding translation, around 80 % of posts in the EU 10 units
have been filled. The challenge of moving to a 20-language regime
can be considered as having been successfully met: all the lan-
guages added following the EU 10 enlargement are now fully cov-
ered, except for Maltese. Translations into Maltese for plenary and
for committee documents are generally available on time. The
recruitment situation for Maltese translators is expected to be sat-
isfactory from late spring 2007. The Romanian and Bulgarian
Translation Units consist of 60 % for Romania and 50 % for Bul-
garia of the normal staff complement for such services, employed
as contract staff. In addition, the interpretation services of the EU
institutions share a list of accredited freelance interpreters for each
of these two languages.

In the buildings field, alteration work in Strasbourg and Brussels
on the Chambers, meeting rooms and offices for the new Mem-
bers and their assistants continued in line with projections. In
Nicosia, a building was purchased, permitting the establishment
of a European Union House. In Bucharest and Sofia, small-scale
temporary ‘satellite’ offices were opened, leases for the premises
having been signed in 2005.

3.3.

Better EU legislation

This objective included completing ‘Raising the Game’ reforms,
commissioning impact assessment studies and supporting the
drive to simplify legislation.

The ‘Raising the Game’ exercise is one of the most ambitious
administrative reorganisations of Parliament departments ever
undertaken. It has entailed the reorganisation of the support
structures for parliamentary committees (establishment of two
directorates-general; setting up of policy departments; possibility
of using expertise budgets and project teams), the setting up of a
Tabling Office responsible for verifying texts, and expanding the
Library.

At the end of 2006, the support machinery put in place for par-
liamentary work enabled Parliament to take up the challenges cre-
ated by the increase in its powers and responsibilities. Subject to
a number of adjustments, the ‘Raising the Game’ project can be
considered as completed.

3.4.

Better financial management

This objective covered more training for financial actors, imple-
menting the action plans arising out of self-assessment and inter-
identifying possible improvements to the
nal audit activities,
financial regulation and preparing for entry into force of the
Members’ statute in 2009.

As regards training for the financial actors, cross-cutting modules
and thematic modules were organised in 2006. The cross-cutting
modules included introductory sessions and courses on general
principles, while the thematic modules concerned for instance the
budgetary procedure, public procurement, internal control and
self-assessment, acts of budgetary implementation, and treatment
of VAT. Specific training on the financial software used in Parlia-
ment has also been given.

The action plan adopted by the Secretary-General in his capacity
as principal authorising officer by delegation is updated annually
in light of the annual reports by the authorising officers by del-
egation and of the Internal Auditor’s reports. These action plans
lay down priorities in the form of implementation timetables
(short, medium and long terms). Since the first central action plan
in 2003, the most important achievements have been to:

— set up centralised financial units under the management
authority of the competent authorising officer by delegation;

— fill the vacant finance-related posts;

— enhance the know-how of finance staff, in particular by
finance-related training

organising a large number of
courses;

— set up and strengthen verification structures;

— identify sensitive duties;

— control payment periods laid down in rules and regulations;

— incorporate management of authorising officer powers as a

function within FINORD (1);

— develop a central register of contracts and grants awarded.

As far as the Financial Regulation is concerned, Parliament’s needs
have been signalled to the Commission so that they are taken into
consideration when Financial Regulation and the Implementing
Rules are revised. The Internal Rules for implementation of
Parliament’s budget will be brought into line as needed with the
modifications
texts adopted respectively on
13 December 2006, 20 July 2005 and 2 August 2006 and with
the modification to the Implementing Rules to be adopted by the
Commission in 2007.

to the latter

Concerning the Statute for Members, the Bureau set up a work-
ing party and mandated it to establish a schedule for implemen-
tation and to provide policy guidelines for preparations for entry
into force of the Statute in 2009. The working party examined a
significant proportion of the issues arising and expects to com-
plete its tasks by the end of 2007.

(1) Financial software in the European Parliament.

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ANNEXES

ANNEX I

SUMMARY OF ‘C’ TRANSFERS

Financial year 2006

No

1

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

from chapter

chap 101

Contingency reserve

(in EUR)

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

– 1 637 658

to chapter

to article

40

402

Expenditure relating to certain institutions and bodies

Contributions to European political parties

1 637 658

2

from chapter

chap 100

Provisional appropriations

– 14 478 000

to chapter

14

Other staff and outside services

to item

to item

1402/01

Conference interpreters: interpreters and conference technicians

10 000 000

1420/01

Outside services: translation of the Verbatim Report of Proceed-
ings

2 000 000

to chapter

16

Other expenditure relating to persons working with the insti-
tution

to item

to item

1610

1612

Expenditure on recruitment

Further training

to chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

to item

2000/02

Rent: Strasbourg

73 000

405 000

2 000 000

to chapter

32

Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving, production
and dissemination

to item

to item

3241

Digital and traditional publications

3242/01

Expenditure on publication, information and participation in
public events: publications, information actions, public events

to item

3242/02

Expenditure on publication, information and participation in
public events: electronic news and information (Internet)

to item

3242/03

Expenditure on publication, information and participation in
public events: Legislative Observatory (OEIL)

3

from chapter

32

Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving, production
and dissemination

from item

3244/01

to chapter

to article

44

442

Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola pro-
gramme and invitations to opinion multipliers from third coun-
tries: reception costs and subsidies for visitors’ groups

Meetings and other activities of current and former members

– 41 300

Cost of meetings and other activities of the European Parlia-
mentary Association

41 300

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(in EUR)

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

Buildings and associated costs

Provisional appropriation for buildings

– 6 600 000

No

5

20

2009

2003

within the
chapter

from item

to item

to item

to item

6

from chapter

from article

Acquisition of immovable property

2007/04

Fitting-out of premises: Information offices

2008

40

402

Other expenditure on buildings

Expenditure relating to certain institutions and bodies

Contributions to European political parties

5 750 000

300 000

550 000

to chapter

chap 101

Contingency reserve

1 003 317

8

from chapter

chap 100

Provisional appropriations

to chapter

21

Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase, hire and
maintenance

to item

2100/05

Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and soft-
ware, and related work: purchase, replacement and mainte-
nance of infrastructure and development software

4 000 000

to chapter

to item

to item

12

1200

1240

Officials and temporary staff

Remuneration and allowances

Provisional appropriation

9

from chapter

12

Officials and temporary staff

– 1 003 317

– 4 000 000

from item

1200

Remuneration and allowances

– 250 000

from chapter

21

Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase, hire and
maintenance

from item

2100/04

Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and soft-
ware, and related work: purchase, servicing and maintenance of
Streamline equipment and software, and related work

– 150 000

to chapter

21

Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase, hire and
maintenance

to item

2102/07

Outside assistance in connection with the operation, develop-
ment and maintenance of software systems: outside assistance
in connection with the Streamline project

400 000

10

from chapter

Chap 101

Contingency reserve

from chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

from item

to chapter

to item

2009

20

2008

Provisional appropriation for buildings

Buildings and associated costs

Other expenditure on buildings

7 100 000

11

from chapter

12

Officials and temporary staff

from item

to chapter

1200

14

Remuneration and allowances

Other staff and outside services

– 3 200 000

– 3 900 000

– 6 200 000

to item

1402/01

Conference interpreters: interpreters and conference technicians

6 200 000

12

within the
chapter

from item

to article

10

1030

102

Members of the institution

Retirement pensions

Temporary allowances

– 120 000

120 000

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(in EUR)

No

13

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

from chapter

Chap 104

Reserve for information and communication policy

– 1 000 000

to chapter

32

Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving, production
and dissemination

to item

3248/03

Expenditure on audiovisual information: Web TV

1 000 000

14

within the chap-
ter

12

from item

to item

1200

1220

Officials and temporary staff

Remuneration and allowances

Allowances for staff retired in the interests of the service

35 000

15

from chapter

Chap 101

Contingency reserve

from chapter

21

Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase, hire and
maintenance

from item

2140/08

Technical equipment and installations: purchase, replacement,
hire, maintenance and repair of technical equipment and instal-
lations — security

to chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

to item

2026/03

Security and surveillance of buildings: Brussels

1 161 000

16

from chapter

Chap 101

Contingency reserve

to chapter

32

Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving, production
and dissemination

to item

3200/08

Acquisition of expertise: security-related consultations and
studies

107 000

– 35 000

– 590 000

– 571 000

– 107 000

17

from chapter

Chap 101

Contingency reserve

– 108 000

to chapter

21

Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase, hire and
maintenance

to item

2102/03

Outside assistance in connection with the operation, develop-
ment and maintenance of software systems: production of new
applications and further development of existing applications
(feasibility study, analysis, programming, debugging)

108 000

18

from chapter

10

Members of the institution

from item

1004/01

Travel and subsistence allowances, attendance at meetings and
associated expenditure: part-sessions, committees or their del-
egations, political groups and miscellaneous

from item

from chapter

from item

from item

108

12

1200

1204

from item

1222

from item

from chapter

from item

from item

from item

124

14

1400

1406

144

Exchange losses

Officials and temporary staff

Remuneration and allowances

Entitlements in connection with entering the service, transfer
and leaving the service

Allowances for staff whose service is terminated and special
retirement scheme for officials and temporary staff

Provisional appropriation

Other staff and outside services

Other staff

Observers

Provisional appropriation

– 1 500 000

– 30 000

– 24 025 699

– 2 000 000

– 900 000

– 5 047 543

– 2 000 000

– 167 000

– 304 758

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(in EUR)

No

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

from chapter

16

Other expenditure relating to persons working with the insti-
tution

from item

from item

1610

1654/01

Expenditure on recruitment

Early Childhood Centre and approved day nurseries: outside
management of Parliament’s day nursery and family room in
Brussels and ancillary expenditure

from chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

from item

2009

Provisional appropriation for buildings

from chapter

32

Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving, production
and dissemination

from item

3240

Official Journal

from chapter

42

Expenditure relating to parliamentary assistance

from item

from item

4220

4222

Parliamentary assistance

Exchange losses

from chapter

Chap 104

Reserve for information and communication policy

to chapter

to item

20

2003

Buildings and associated costs

Acquisition of immovable property

63 125 000

19

from chapter

10

Members of the institution

from item

1005

from item

109

Special travel expenses in the exercise of the Parliamentary
mandate

Provisional appropriation to cover the allowances of Members
of the institution

from chapter

23

Current administrative expenditure

from item

2300/02

Stationery, office supplies and miscellaneous consumables:
paper for the print shop

from chapter

Chap 100

Provisional appropriations

from chapter

Chap 101

Contingency reserve

to chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

to item

2001/03

Annual lease payments: Brussels

10 000 000

20

from chapter

12

Officials and temporary staff

from item

to chapter

1200

30

to item

3000/01

Remuneration and allowances

Meetings and conferences

Staff mission expenses: part-sessions, committees or their del-
egations, political groups and miscellaneous

650 000

from chapter

16

Other expenditure relating to persons working with the insti-
tution

to item

1613

Further training: mission expenses

120 000

21

from chapter

Chap 101

Contingency reserve

to chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

to item

2024/03

Energy consumption: Brussels

600 000

22

from chapter

Chap 101

Contingency reserve

to chapter

14

Other staff and outside services

to item

1420/01

Outside services: translation of the Verbatim Report of Proceed-
ings

to item

1420/02

Outside services: other translations and typing

600 000

1 100 000

– 150 000

– 2 400 000

– 4 500 000

– 2 000 000

– 2 000 000

– 600 000

– 15 500 000

– 660 000

– 1 000 000

– 800 000

– 7 203 580

– 336 420

– 770 000

– 600 000

– 1 700 000

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No

23

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

from chapter

Chap 101

Contingency reserve

to chapter

23

Current administrative expenditure

29.12.2007

(in EUR)

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

– 100 000

to item

2370/01

Removals: departmental removals and associated handling

100 000

24

from chapter

chap 100

Provisional appropriations

– 8 000 000

to chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

to item

2007/03

Fitting-out of premises: Brussels

8 000 000

25

from chapter

chap 101

Contingency reserve

– 180 000

to chapter

to item

30

3040

Meetings and conferences

Miscellaneous expenditure on internal meetings

180 000

26

from chapter

chap 104

Reserve for information and communication policy

– 2 600 000

to chapter

21

Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase, hire and
maintenance

to item

2140/12

Technical equipment and installations: audiovisual — D5 Build-
ing

2 600 000

27

from chapter

chap 101

Contingency reserve

to chapter

to article

10

105

Members of the institution

Language and data-processing courses

150 000

28

from chapter

chap 101

Contingency reserve

to chapter

10

Members of the institution

to item

1004/02

Travel and subsistence allowances, attendance at meetings and
associated expenditure: parliamentary delegations and institu-
tions stipulated in the ACP-EU Convention and in the agree-
ment establishing the Euro-Mediterranean Forum

29

from chapter

chap 101

Contingency reserve

to chapter

to item

10

1032

Members of the institution

Survivors’ pensions

30

from chapter

10

Members of the institution

365 000

200 000

from item

from item

from item

from chapter

from item

from item

1030

1006

108

12

1200

1204

from item

1222

Retirement pensions

General expenditure allowance

Exchange losses

Officials and temporary staff

Remuneration and allowances

Entitlements in connection with entering the service, transfer
and leaving the service

Allowances for staff whose service is terminated and special
retirement scheme for officials and temporary staff

from chapter

14

Other staff and outside services

from item

from item

from item

1400

1402/01

1402/02

Other staff

Conference interpreters: interpreters and conference technicians

Conference interpreters: interinstitutional cooperation activities
in the language field

from item

1404/04

Graduate traineeships, grants and exchanges of officials: grants
for training and further training of conference interpreters

from item

1406

Observers

– 150 000

– 365 000

– 200 000

– 96 000

– 50 000

– 50 000

– 2 000 000

– 1 000 000

– 100 000

– 1 500 000

– 600 000

– 36 800

– 80 000

– 365 000

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(in EUR)

No

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

from chapter

16

from item

1630/01

from item

from item

from item

from item

1630/04

1632/03

1652

1654/01

from item

1654/04

Other expenditure relating to persons working with the insti-
tution

Social welfare: supplementary aid for the disabled — expendi-
ture not refunded by the Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme and
other specific expenditure

Social welfare: welfare expenditure — Brussels

Social contacts between members of staff and other social mea-
sures: Brussels

Current operating expenditure for restaurants and canteens

Early Childhood Centre and approved day nurseries: outside
management of Parliament’s day nursery and family room in
Brussels and ancillary expenditure

Early Childhood Centre and approved day nurseries: Parlia-
ment’s contribution to the Early Childhood Centre run by the
Commission and the private day nurseries in Luxembourg

from chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

2000/01

2000/02

2000/03

2000/04

2007/01

2008

2022/01

2022/03

2022/04

2026/01

2026/02

2026/03

2026/04

2028

from chapter

21

from item

2100/01

from item

2140/03

from item

2140/04

from item

2140/05

from item

2140/06

Rent: Luxembourg

Rent: Strasbourg

Rent: Brussels

Rent: Information offices

Fitting-out of premises: Luxembourg

Other expenditure on buildings

Cleaning and maintenance: Luxembourg

Cleaning and maintenance: Brussels

Cleaning and maintenance: Information offices

Security and surveillance of buildings: Luxembourg

Security and surveillance of buildings: Strasbourg

Security and surveillance of buildings: Brussels

Security and surveillance of buildings: Information offices

Insurance

Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase, hire and
maintenance

Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and soft-
ware, and related work: purchase, servicing and maintenance of
infrastructure equipment and software, and related work

Technical equipment and installations: purchase, replacement,
hire, maintenance and repair of technical equipment and instal-
lations — buildings

Technical equipment and installations: purchase, replacement,
hire, maintenance and repair of technical equipment and instal-
lations — conferences

Technical equipment and installations: purchase, replacement,
hire, maintenance and repair of technical equipment and instal-
lations — canteens

Technical equipment and installations: purchase, replacement,
hire, maintenance and repair of technical equipment and instal-
lations — equipment

from item

2140/09

Technical equipment and installations: audiovisual — purchase,
replacement and maintenance

– 28 000

– 45 000

– 11 000

– 150 000

– 200 000

– 300 000

– 50 000

– 2 255 000

– 120 000

– 500 000

– 200 000

– 210 000

– 250 000

– 440 000

– 100 000

– 10 000

– 195 000

– 400 000

– 520 000

– 1 020 000

– 1 558 000

– 25 000

– 350 000

– 210 000

– 440 000

– 88 000

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(in EUR)

No

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

from item

2140/10

Technical equipment and installations: joint equipment infra-
structure and audiovisual installations, including ancillary costs
linked to those purchases, such as studies, engineers’ fees and
assistance

from item

2160/05

Vehicles: rental of information offices

from chapter

23

Current administrative expenditure

from item

2300/04

Stationery, office supplies and miscellaneous consumables:
office supplies

from item

2300/05

Stationery, office supplies and miscellaneous consumables:
information offices

from item

2300/06

Stationery, office supplies and miscellaneous consumables:
audiovisual consumables

from item

from item

from item

from item

2310/01

2310/02

2320/01

2350/04

Financial charges: bank charges

Financial charges: other financial charges

Legal costs and damages: legal costs

Telecommunications: charges for telematic services (subscrip-
tions, communications charges and operation of data transmis-
sion networks)

from item

2350/05

Telecommunications: telecommunications expenses relating to
information offices

from item

2360/01

from item

2360/02

from item

2360/03

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: mail in Lux-
embourg (postage charges and costs for delivery by private
delivery firms)

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: mail in Stras-
bourg (postage charges and costs for delivery by private deliv-
ery firms)

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: mail in Brus-
sels (postage charges and costs for delivery by private delivery
firms)

from item

2360/04

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: packages, cus-
toms clearance

from item

2360/05

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: distribution in
Luxembourg

from item

2360/06

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: distribution in
Strasbourg

from item

2360/07

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: postage on
items produced by DG Information

from item

2360/08

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: information
offices

from item

2370/02

Removals: departmental removals and associated handling —
Information offices

from item

2380/01

from item

from item

from item

2380/03

2380/04

2380/05

Other administrative expenditure: miscellaneous insurance, in
particular for telephone, IT and audiovisual equipment, the
transport and display of material, thefts and losses on mission

Other administrative expenditure: uniforms and working clothes

Other administrative expenditure: information offices

Other administrative expenditure: miscellaneous expenses

from chapter

30

Meetings and conferences

from item

3020/02

Entertainment and representation expenses: entertainment and
representation expenses for parliamentary committees and
interparliamentary delegations

– 7 950

– 35 000

– 140 000

– 100 000

– 201 000

– 90 000

– 19 500

– 79 000

– 900 000

– 475 000

– 50 000

– 72 000

– 231 000

– 30 000

– 54 000

– 4 000

– 125 000

– 700 000

– 19 000

– 6 000

– 38 500

– 10 000

– 20 000

– 8 000

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(in EUR)

No

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

from item

3020/05

Entertainment and representation expenses: entertainment and
representation expenses for staff

from item

3042/02

Meetings, congresses and conferences: committee and delega-
tion meetings (external policies)

from item

from item

3042/03

3042/04

from item

3044

Meetings, congresses and conferences: political group meetings

Meetings, congresses and conferences: other meetings

Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of the Parlia-
mentary Conference on the WTO and other interparliamentary,
ad hoc and WTO delegation meetings

from item

3048

Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of Euromed Par-
liamentary Assembly meetings

from item

3049

Expenditure on travel agency services

from chapter

32

Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving, production
and dissemination

from item

3200/02

Acquisition of expertise: studies, experts and other persons (EU
external policies)

from item

from item

from item

from item

3200/03

3200/05

3200/09

3220/01

Acquisition of expertise: experts for the Administration

Acquisition of expertise: security-related consultations and
studies

Acquisition of expertise: impact assessment

Documentation and library expenditure: books, subscriptions,
newspapers, periodicals and media library products for services
other than in the DGs for the Presidency, Personnel and Infra-
structure and Interpretation and the Legal Service

from item

3220/04

Documentation and library expenditure:
interinstitutional cooperation

international and

from item

3220/05

Documentation and library expenditure: books, subscriptions,
newspapers, periodicals and media library products for the DG
for the Presidency

from item

3220/08

Documentation and library expenditure: special library equip-
ment and services

from item

from item

3220/09

3222/01

Documentation and library expenditure: subscriptions

Expenditure on archive resources: processing of the archive
resources of Parliament and its bodies in all media and acquisi-
tion of archive resources in substitute media

from item

3222/03

Expenditure on archive resources: special facilities and services
for the Archives and Documentation Centre (CARDOC)

from item

3240

Official Journal

from item

3244/01

from item

3244/03

Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola pro-
gramme and invitations to opinion multipliers from third coun-
tries: reception costs and subsidies for visitors’ groups

Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola pro-
gramme and invitations to opinion multipliers from third coun-
tries:
for opinion
multipliers from third countries

financing of grants and traineeships

from item

3245/02

Organisation of seminars, symposia and cultural activities:
Sakharov Prize and cost of organising the award ceremony

from item

3248/01

Expenditure on audiovisual information: production and copro-
duction of audiovisual programmes

– 8 000

– 25 000

– 200 000

– 10 000

– 28 000

– 63 000

– 215 000

– 36 000

– 250 000

– 350 000

– 350 000

– 346 000

– 7 800

– 5 000

– 134 000

– 120 000

– 38 000

– 5 000

– 500 000

– 2 701 000

– 79 000

– 10 000

– 229 000

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(in EUR)

No

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

from item

3249/02

from item

3249/03

from chapter

from item

40

400

Information exchanges with national parliaments: measures
linked to documentation, analysis and information, including
those carried out by the European Centre for Parliamentary
Research and Documentation (ECPRD)

Information exchanges with national parliaments: cooperation
between European Parliament and parliaments from countries
under the Stability Pact

Expenditure relating to certain institutions and bodies

Current administrative expenditure and expenditure relating to
the political and information activities of the political groups
and non-attached Members

from chapter

chap 101

Contingency reserve

from chapter

chap 104

Reserve for information and communication policy

to chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

to item

2001/03

Annual lease payments: Brussels

31 523 602

31

from chapter

10

Members of the institution

from item

1010/02

Accident and sickness insurance and other social security
charges: insurance against sickness

from item

1012

from item

from item

from item

102

1030

1033

Specific measures to assist disabled Members and Members’ dis-
abled children

Temporary allowances

Retirement pensions

Optional pension scheme for Members

from chapter

12

Officials and temporary staff

from item

1204

Entitlements in connection with entering the service, transfer
and leaving the service

from chapter

14

Other staff and outside services

from item

from item

1400

1406

from chapter

16

from item

1654/01

Other staff

Observers

Other expenditure relating to persons working with the insti-
tution

Early Childhood Centre and approved day nurseries: outside
management of Parliament’s day nursery and family room in
Brussels and ancillary expenditure

from chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

from item

2000/01

2000/02

2000/03

2000/04

2007/04

2008

2022/02

2022/04

2024/01

2024/04

Rent: Luxembourg

Rent: Strasbourg

Rent: Brussels

Rent: Information offices

Fitting-out of premises: Information offices

Other expenditure on buildings

Cleaning and maintenance: Strasbourg

Cleaning and maintenance: Information offices

Energy consumption: Luxembourg

Energy consumption: Information offices

– 80 000

– 45 000

– 916 000

– 4 905 052

– 900 000

– 300 000

– 42 000

– 67 000

– 33 000

– 54 000

– 468 000

– 1 100 000

– 40 000

– 65 000

– 8 000

– 9 000

– 8 000

– 130 000

– 220 000

– 80 000

– 130 000

– 10 000

– 8 000

– 10 000

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(in EUR)

No

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

from chapter

21

Data processing, equipment and furniture: purchase, hire and
maintenance

from item

2140/01

from item

2140/05

from item

2140/07

from item

2140/10

Technical equipment and installations: purchase, replacement,
hire, maintenance and repair of technical equipment and instal-
lations — publishing and dissemination in traditional or elec-
tronic form

Technical equipment and installations: purchase, replacement,
hire, maintenance and repair of technical equipment and instal-
lations — canteens

Technical equipment and installations: purchase, replacement,
hire, maintenance and repair of technical equipment and instal-
lations — mail

Technical equipment and installations: joint equipment infra-
structure and audiovisual installations, including ancillary costs
linked to those purchases, such as studies, engineers’ fees and
assistance

from item

2160/05

Vehicles: rental of information offices

from chapter

23

Current administrative expenditure

from item

from item

from item

2320/01

2320/02

2350/05

from item

2360/01

from item

2360/02

Legal costs and damages: legal costs

Legal costs and damages: damages, interest and anterior debts

Telecommunications: telecommunications expenses relating to
information offices

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: mail in Lux-
embourg (postage charges and costs for delivery by private
delivery firms)

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: mail in Stras-
bourg (postage charges and costs for delivery by private deliv-
ery firms)

from item

2360/08

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges: information
offices

from chapter

30

Meetings and conferences

from item

3000/01

Staff mission expenses: part-sessions, committees or their del-
egations, political groups and miscellaneous

from item

3042/01

Meetings, congresses and conferences: committee and delega-
tion meetings (internal policies)

from item

from item

from item

3042/03

3042/04

3046

from item

3048

from chapter

32

Meetings, congresses and conferences: political group meetings

Meetings, congresses and conferences: other meetings

Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of ACP-EU Joint
Parliamentary Assembly meetings

Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of Euromed Par-
liamentary Assembly meetings

Expertise and information: acquisition, archiving, production
and dissemination

from item

3200/01

Acquisition of expertise: studies, experts and other persons (EU
internal policies)

from item

from item

from item

3200/09

3220/09

3222/01

Acquisition of expertise: impact assessment

Documentation and library expenditure: subscriptions

Expenditure on archive resources: processing of the archive
resources of Parliament and its bodies in all media and acquisi-
tion of archive resources in substitute media

– 15 000

– 130 000

– 8 000

– 8 000

– 3 000

– 30 000

– 49 000

– 50 000

– 13 000

– 4 000

– 100 000

– 450 000

– 11 000

– 50 000

– 7 000

– 21 400

– 15 200

– 33 000

– 20 000

– 2 303

– 20 000

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(in EUR)

No

From/To
Chapter/Article/Item

Number
Chapter/Article/Item

Heading

Amount of
receiving item

Amount of
donor item

from item

from item

from item

3240

3241

3242/01

from item

3242/02

from item

3242/03

from item

3242/04

from item

3244/01

from item

3244/02

from item

3245/01

from item

3245/02

from item

3248/01

from item

3249/01

from item

3249/03

Official Journal

Digital and traditional publications

Expenditure on publication, information and participation in
public events: publications, information actions, public events

Expenditure on publication, information and participation in
public events: electronic news and information (Internet)

Expenditure on publication, information and participation in
public events: Legislative Observatory (OEIL)

Expenditure on publication, information and participation in
public events: electronic news and information (Internet)

Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola pro-
gramme and invitations to opinion multipliers from third coun-
tries: reception costs and subsidies for visitors’ groups

Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola pro-
gramme and invitations to opinion multipliers from third coun-
tries: Euroscola programme running costs

Organisation of seminars, symposia and cultural activities: sub-
sidies for the organisation of national and multinational sym-
posia and seminars for opinion multipliers from the Member
States; cost of organising parliamentary symposia and seminars

Organisation of seminars, symposia and cultural activities:
Sakharov Prize and cost of organising the award ceremony

Expenditure on audiovisual information: production and copro-
duction of audiovisual programmes

Information exchanges with national parliaments: parliamen-
tary relations other than those covered by Chapters 10 and 30
and cooperation measures, including those linked to legislative
work

Information exchanges with national parliaments: cooperation
between European Parliament and parliaments from countries
under the Stability Pact

– 642 000

– 35 000

– 364 500

– 115 864

– 117 757

– 223 847

– 23 420

– 39 898

– 114 334

– 12 000

– 170 000

– 25 000

– 17 300

to chapter

20

Buildings and associated costs

to item

2001/03

Annual lease payments: Brussels

5 722 823

TOTAL of the amounts transferred by transfer ‘C’

169 027 700

– 169 027 700

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ANNEX II

SUMMARY OF ‘P’ TRANSFERS

Financial year 2006

No

1

Within article 200

Chapter/Article/Item

from

to

2000/02

Rent: Strasbourg

2008

Other expenditure on buildings

2

Within article 122

from

1222

Allowances for staff whose service is terminated and special retirement scheme for
officials and temporary staff

to

1220

Allowances for staff retired in the interests of the service

(in EUR)

Amount

– 2 000 000

2 000 000

– 100 000

100 000

3

Within article 210

from

2100/01

Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and software, and related work:
purchase, servicing and maintenance of infrastructure equipment and software, and
related work

– 1 000 000

to

to

2102/02

2102/03

Within article 120

from

to

1200

1202

Within article 324

from

3244/01

Outside assistance in connection with the operation, development and maintenance of
software systems: maintenance of existing applications
(analysis of changes,
programming, debugging)

Outside assistance in connection with the operation, development and maintenance of
software systems: production of new applications and further development of existing
applications (feasibility study, analysis, programming, debugging)

Remuneration and allowances

Paid overtime

Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola programme and invitations
to opinion multipliers from third countries: reception costs and subsidies for visitors’
groups

3248/01

3248/02

Expenditure on audiovisual information: production and coproduction of audiovisual
programmes

Expenditure on audiovisual information: Internet broadcasting of plenary sittings and
meetings

to

3242/04

Expenditure on publication, information and participation in public events: electronic
news and information (Internet)

3245/01

Organisation of seminars, symposia and cultural activities: subsidies for the organisation
of national and multinational symposia and seminars for opinion multipliers from the
Member States; cost of organising parliamentary symposia and seminars

Within article 103

from

to

1030

1033

Within article 202

Retirement pensions

Optional pension scheme for Members

from

to

2022/03

Cleaning and maintenance: Brussels

2024/03

Energy consumption: Brussels

Within article 422

from

to

4220

4222

Parliamentary assistance

Exchange losses

4

5

6

7

8

40 000

960 000

– 63 000

63 000

– 181 000

– 576 000

– 174 000

782 000

149 000

– 480 000

480 000

– 110 000

110 000

– 40 000

40 000

Total

4 724 000

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ANNEX III

IMPLEMENTATION OF 2006 APPROPRIATIONS

Article/Item

Heading

Initial
Appropriations.

Transfer

Final
Appropriations

Commitments

%
of Utilisation

Salaries, allowances and payments

—

—

—

—

—

Travel and subsistence allowances, attendance at meet-
ings and associated expenditure

Special travel expenses in the exercise of the Parliamen-
tary mandate

73 151 000

– 1 135 000

72 016 000

72 016 000

100

1 710 000

– 660 000

1 050 000

1 050 000

General expenditure allowance

34 275 000

– 50 000

34 225 000

34 178 614

Allowances for performance of duties

160 000

—

160 000

158 645

Accident and sickness insurance and other social secu-
rity charges

Specific measures to assist disabled Members and Mem-
bers’ disabled children

2 153 540

– 300 000

1 853 540

1 825 632

98

149 000

– 42 000

107 000

87 201

102

Temporary allowances

400 000

53 000

453 000

452 286

Retirement pensions

Invalidity pensions

Survivors’ pensions

10 166 000

– 729 000

9 437 000

9 433 446

522 000

—

522 000

490 495

2 330 000

200 000

2 530 000

2 517 987

Optional pension scheme for Members

12 158 000

426 000

12 584 000

12 569 728

Language and data-processing courses

700 000

150 000

850 000

850 000

Exchange losses

100 000

– 80 000

20 000

16 703

Provisional appropriation to cover the allowances of
Members of the institution

1 000 000

– 1 000 000

—

—

Remuneration and allowances

452 168 775

– 33 343 699

418 825 076

418 265 852

Paid overtime

357 391

63 000

420 391

420 391

Entitlements in connection with entering the service,
transfer and leaving the service

Allowances for staff retired in the interests of the ser-
vice

Allowances for staff whose service is terminated and
special retirement scheme for officials and temporary
staff

8 436 127

– 3 468 000

4 968 127

4 968 127

100

502 328

135 000

637 328

618 895

97

10 493 419

– 1 100 000

9 393 419

9 294 717

Provisional appropriation

5 047 543

– 5 047 543

—

—

Other staff

32 410 573

– 4 600 000

27 810 573

27 249 956

Conference interpreters

29 590 000

15 563 200

45 153 200

45 153 200

Graduate traineeships, grants and exchanges of officials

4 950 450

– 80 000

4 870 450

4 725 536

Observers

3 367 000

– 572 000

2 795 000

2 795 000

Training allowance (European Parliament apprentice-
ship programme)

—

—

—

—

Outside services

Provisional appropriation

Expenditure on recruitment

Further training

11 331 825

3 700 000

15 031 825

13 684 995

304 758

– 304 758

—

—

290 000

– 77 000

213 000

212 983

2 640 000

405 000

3 045 000

2 928 176

1000

1004

1005

1006

1007

1010

1012

1030

1031

1032

1033

105

108

109

1200

1202

1204

1220

1222

1240

1400

1402

1404

1406

1407

142

144

1610

1612

100

100

99

81

100

100

94

100

100

100

84

—

100

100

99

—

98

100

97

100

—

91

—

100

96

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Article/Item

Heading

Initial
Appropriations.

Transfer

Final
Appropriations

Commitments

%
of Utilisation

1613

1630

1632

1650

1652

Further training: mission expenses

975 000

120 000

1 095 000

1 095 000

Social welfare

464 600

– 73 000

391 600

316 058

Social contacts between members of staff and other
social measures

285 000

– 11 000

274 000

249 000

Medical Service

835 000

—

835 000

824 077

Current operating expenditure for restaurants and can-
teens

600 000

– 150 000

450 000

450 000

1654

Early Childhood Centre and approved day nurseries

7 508 708

– 2 965 000

4 543 708

4 391 697

200

Buildings

39 426 776

– 3 080 000

36 346 776

36 293 716

2001

2003

2005

2007

2008

2009

2022

2024

2026

2028

2100

2102

212

214

216

230

231

232

235

236

237

238

300

302

3040

3042

3044

3046

Annual lease payments

1 136 000

47 246 425

48 382 425

48 382 425

Acquisition of immovable property

Construction of buildings

Fitting-out of premises

—

—

68 875 000

68 875 000

68 861 141

—

—

—

11 415 000

7 880 000

19 295 000

19 109 118

Other expenditure on buildings

1 736 887

9 360 000

11 096 887

10 938 276

Provisional appropriation for buildings

15 000 000

– 15 000 000

—

—

Cleaning and maintenance

27 624 421

– 1 040 000

26 584 421

26 182 204

Energy consumption

12 169 634

692 000

12 861 634

12 681 370

Security and surveillance of buildings

32 128 000

36 000

32 164 000

31 952 727

Insurance

1 458 390

– 1 020 000

438 390

383 177

Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and
software, and related work

Outside assistance in connection with the operation,
development and maintenance of software systems

38 090 062

1 292 000

39 382 062

39 301 232

100

29 099 829

1 508 000

30 607 829

30 463 365

Furniture

4 318 000

—

4 318 000

4 305 927

Technical equipment and installations

21 567 116

747 050

22 314 166

16 793 008

Vehicles

5 009 000

– 38 000

4 971 000

4 743 274

Stationery, office supplies and miscellaneous consum-
ables

Financial charges

Legal costs and damages

Telecommunications

3 132 220

– 1 241 000

1 891 220

1 817 918

640 000

– 109 500

530 500

514 682

270 000

– 158 000

112 000

96 044

8 275 000

– 1 425 000

6 850 000

6 210 787

Postage on correspondence and delivery charges

2 068 000

– 1 383 000

685 000

631 125

Removals

395 000

81 000

476 000

475 998

Other administrative expenditure

492 000

– 74 500

417 500

386 207

Staff mission expenses

20 867 935

200 000

21 067 935

21 067 000

Entertainment and representation expenses

833 000

– 16 000

817 000

780 432

Miscellaneous expenditure on internal meetings

1 640 000

180 000

1 820 000

1 819 515

Meetings, congresses and conferences

1 418 500

– 303 000

1 115 500

1 029 211

Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of the
Parliamentary Conference on the WTO and other inter-
parliamentary, ad hoc and WTO delegation meetings

Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of
ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly meetings

630 000

– 28 000

602 000

462 190

430 000

– 21 400

408 600

355 190

100

81

91

99

100

97

100

100

100

—

99

99

—

98

99

99

87

100

100

75

95

96

97

86

91

92

100

93

100

96

100

92

77

87

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29.12.2007

Article/Item

Heading

Initial
Appropriations.

Transfer

Final
Appropriations

Commitments

%
of Utilisation

3048

Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of
Euromed Parliamentary Assembly meetings

100 000

– 78 200

21 800

11 465

3049

Expenditure on travel agency services

1 245 000

– 215 000

1 030 000

1 029 687

320

Acquisition of expertise

6 944 200

– 932 000

6 012 200

5 424 030

Documentation and library expenditure

3 276 600

– 615 103

2 661 497

2 625 316

Expenditure on archive resources

1 149 000

– 63 000

1 086 000

1 085 013

Official Journal

8 069 000

– 3 142 000

4 927 000

4 926 560

Digital and traditional publications

1 595 000

– 35 000

1 560 000

1 543 229

Expenditure on publication, information and participa-
tion in public events

Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euro-
scola programme and invitations to opinion multipli-
ers from third countries

Organisation of seminars, symposia and cultural activi-
ties

Expenditure on information about the Debate on the
Future of Europe

9 870 000

– 39 968

9 830 032

9 147 383

93

23 920 000

– 3 065 618

20 854 382

20 639 318

1 895 000

12 666

1 907 666

1 650 046

—

—

—

—

Expenditure on audiovisual information

8 650 000

– 149 000

8 501 000

8 227 761

Information exchanges with national parliaments

540 000

– 167 300

372 700

298 425

Expenditure relating to Information Offices

—

—

—

—

Current administrative expenditure and expenditure
relating to the political and information activities of the
political groups and non-attached Members

49 622 000

– 916 000

48 706 000

48 705 872

Contributions to European political parties

8 594 000

634 341

9 228 341

9 228 341

Parliamentary assistants

Parliamentary assistance

Exchange losses

—

—

—

—

135 289 000

– 2 040 000

133 249 000

131 804 954

1 000 000

– 560 000

440 000

429 079

Cost of meetings and other activities of former Mem-
bers

Cost of meetings and other activities of the European
Parliamentary Association

100 000

—

100 000

100 000

100

80 000

41 300

121 300

121 300

100

chap 100

Provisional appropriations

chap 101

Contingency reserve

chap 102

Reserve for the statute for members

chap 103

Enlargement reserve

33 681 580 – 33 681 580

13 175 813 – 13 175 813

—

—

—

—

chap 104

Reserve for information and communication policy

20 000 000 – 20 000 000

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Total

1 321 600 000

—

1 321 600 000 1 306 325 432

99

3220

3222

3240

3241

3242

3244

3245

3247

3248

3249

325

400

402

420

4220

4222

440

442

53

100

90

99

100

100

99

99

86

—

97

80

—

100

100

—

99

98