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# 92001E1819

**WRITTEN QUESTION E-1819/01 by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission. Expenditure on Ispra JRC scientific personnel.** 
  
*Official Journal 093 E , 18/04/2002 P. 0027 - 0028*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1819/01

by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission

(21 June 2001)

Subject: Expenditure on Ispra JRC scientific personnel

As a result of the policy which the Commission has been pursuing over the last few years to the satisfaction of certain Member States, the Ispra research centre has taken on an increasingly more administrative and increasingly less scientific character, contrary to its initial aims, which have apparently not been officially changed.

Regarding Article B6-111 of the 2001 budget (purely where expenditure on the Ispra centre's current staff complement is concerned), can the Commission say what individual amounts are intended for Ispra's administrative and scientific personnel?

Answer given by Mr Busquin on behalf of the Commission

(31 July 2001)

The mission of the Joint Research Center (JRC), adopted by Council and Parliament in 1999, is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of Community policies. It serves the common interest of the Member States while being independent of particular private or national interests.

Therefore, the JRC is a research establishment not dedicated to research policy but acting as a European Scientific and Technical reference centre for other Community policies (environment, agriculture, transport, energy, nuclear).

As far as expenditure for personnel is concerned, the breakdown for the JRC Ispra site in the year 2001 is as follows:

- Total: 114 million,

- Scientific personnel: 95 million,

- Administrative personnel: 19 million.

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