CELEX: 51982DC0571
Language: en
Date: 1982-08-24
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 27/82 (Non-compulsory expenditure)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (82) 571
Vol. 1982/0181
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  FROM CHAPTER A - 11    -   STAFF
  Article 110                Officials and temporary staff holdin ?
                             a post provided for in the establishment
                             plan
  Item 1100                  Basic salaries         .                                 1 198 000
  Item 1101                  Family allowances                                           79 000
  Item 1102              - Expatriation and foreign residence
                             allowances ( including Article 97 of "fch0
                             ECSC Staff Regulations )                                    95 000
  Item 1103              -   Secretarial allowances                                      12 000
  Article 113            -   Insurance a,gainst sickness , accidents
                             and occupational disease
  Item 1130              -   Insurance against sickness                                  22 000
  Item 1131              -   Insurance against accidents and occupational
                             disease                                                      5 000
  Article 114            -   Miscellaneous allowances and ,grants
  Item 1141              -   Annual leave travel expenses                                  • V/ W
  Article 119            –   Prcvisional anoroonation
  Item 1190              -   Provisional appropriation to cover any
                             adjustments to th.e remuneration and
                             pensions of officials and other staff
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; TO CHAPTER B - 98  -  OPE RAT   OF COMMISSION DELEGATIONS IK
                        DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
  Article 980           EEC subsidy for the operation of the European
                        Association for Cooperation (EAC )
  Item 9800          -  Operating expenses of the EAC headquarters      1 418 500
  Item 9801          -  Provisional appropriation for adjustments
                        to the remuneration of EAC staff                    59 500
                                                                        1 478 000
  The Financial Controller approved this proposal on 15 July 1982 in accordance
  with Article 2l(4) of the financial Regulation and certified that the appropriations
  are available .
 ---pagebreak---                                    Grounds
1 . In connection with establishment of the gener»-j_ "budget for 19o2 ,
the "budgetary authority authorized the establishment       serving EAC
s1;aff by creating 56 permanent posts in a special column       the Commission 's
establishment plan .
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At the same time the budgetary authority allocated the necessary
appropriations for remuneration and related expenditure to two different
chapters :                          '     .
Chapter 98 s    EEC subsidy for the operation of the European
                Association for Cooperation                      1 378 000 ECU
Chapter 11 :    Officials and temporary staff holding a post
                provided for in the establishment plan           1 020 000 ECU
2.     It was assumed in this connection that the staff concerned could not
be established before 1 July 1982 .
The establishment procedure is complicated and comprises three stages :
( a) the Commission has to draft a proposal for a Council regulation , obtain
the opinion of the Staff Regulations Committee and submit it to the Council ,
which must then consult Parliament ;
( b ) once the regulation has been adopted , the Commission has to consult an
ad hoc committee responsible for examining the qualifications and the
abilities of the staff concerned before they can be appointed as probationary
officials ;
 ( c ) once this has been done , the officials have to be seconded to the EAC
in the interests of the service .
 ---pagebreak--- It was estimated that this .procedure would take six months .  The "budgetary-
authority therefore entered 1 378 000 ECU – corresponding to remuneration
and related expenditure ( taxes due to the Belgian State and social security
contributions ) for 56 staff members – in Article 980 for the first half
of the year . A slightly lowez* figure was entered in Chapter 11 –
1 020 000 ECU - for the second' half of ^he year since neither taxes nor
social security contributions 'are transferred to the- Belgian State for
established Commission staff .
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3 . The assumptions on which appropriations were entered in the budget
proved to be wrong . The proposal for a Council regulation introducing
special transitional measures concerning the recruitment as Community
officials of 56 members of the staff of the EAC was not adopted by the
1 July deadline . It was sent to the Council on 8 June and cannot possibly
enter into force by 1 July given the time needed for consultation of
Parliament and vetting within the Council . The 56 EAC staff members will
therefore retain their current status and will continue to be paid on that
basis from Article 98O of the budget . Under the Staff Regulations , the
remuneration of seconded officials cannot be charged to Title 1 of the budget .
Seconded staff are not paid by the Commission but by the organization to
which they are seconded . The necessary appropriations must therefore be
included in the subsidy paid to the EAC and entered in Article 980 .
To avoid difficulties of this kind in future , the Commission in its
preliminary draft budget for 1983 proposed that expenditure on all EAC
headquarters staff be charged to Chapter 98 irrespective of whether they
are established or not .
The purpose of the present proposal for a transfer is to allow the EAC to
pay its staff , before and after establishment , throughout 1982 , from the
same headings as proposed for 1983 .
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4.  The amount to be transferred from Chap^ r u to Article 980 is necesaarily
higher than the amount entered, in Chapter 11 fVr si x months' remuneration for     «
56 officials , since an EAC staff member costs more vtian an official . TTo
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accurate forecast can be given of how soon these staff numbers will be               1
established after the Council Regulation enters into force . . To cover all
eventualities and to ensure that the establishment procedure described in
point 2 takes place in the best possible conditions , it is proposed that
requirements be calculated on the basis of six months' retauneration for
56 non-established EAC staff.    Any surplus will be re-turned to the Commission 's
budget in the same way* as any unused portion of the EAC subsidy.
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On this basis 1 47° 000 ECU will be needed .  This is the amount that the
Commission proposes to withdraw from Chapter 11 and enter in Article 980 *