CELEX: 51981DC0200
Language: en
Date: 1981-04-14
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 6/81 (non-compulsory expenditure)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (81) 200
Vol. 1981/0075
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GENERAL BUDGET 1981                           COM(81 ) 200 final
SECTION III - COMMISSION
                                              Brussels , 14th April 1981
                     TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 6 / 81
                         ( non-compulsory expenditure )
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GENERAL BUDGET 1981
SECTION III ( COMMISSION)
                   TRANSFER OP APPROPRIATIONS No 6/8 1
                      ( non-compulsory expenditure )
FROM CHAPTER 101           CONTINGENCY RESERVE
TO CHAPTER 14              EXPENDITURE ON SOCIAL WELFARE
Article 149                Other social expenditure
                                                              110 000 ECU
The Financial Controller approved this proposal on 27 March 1981 in
 accordance with Article 21(4 ) of the Financial Regulation and certified
 that the appropriations are available .
 ---pagebreak---                                               GROUNDS
 The budgetary authority allocated the 1981 appropriations for Expenditure
•on -'•oMa.l     1 farfi to the institutions as follows :
                           % of basic                 amount per head            change on 198ο
                           salaries                   ( officials and
                                                      local staff)
                                                          ( in ECU )
 Parliament                        0.64 X                    146                * - +    30.2 χ
 Council                           0.6 8 X                   151                          6.1 Χ '
Economic and
                               ■ · 0 '. 8 8 %               203               1
                                                                                    4-   11,3 χ
 Social Committee
Commission^                        C . 16 X         ,         45                         39.6 Α
Publications Office          •     0.59 X                   101                     Λ
                                                                                          7.3 ·/
                                                                                              /*»
Court of Justice                   0.59 X                   141           Λ ■       +     8.1 Χ
Court of Auditors                  0.67 %                   161                     4-    sΛ  ν
                                                                                              /·
  Staff paid from the administrative appropriations only.
In the case of the Commission , the above figure includes a 55*6/£ reduction
in the appropriation for Article 149 ( Other social expenditure ). In
 justifying the reduction from 450 100 ECU in 1980 to 200 000 ECU in 1981 ,
 the Council said that assistance to parents for holiday camps under
 Article 149 should go only to officials in categories C and D.                        Parliament
 agreed with its rapporteur 's view that , while the appropriations for some social
welfare activities for Commission staff were on average lower than the
 appropriations for similar purposes in national budgets , no change should
 be made because of budgetary restrictions .
 There are problems here both because 40% of the appropriation is allocated
 to holiday camps and because the appropriations are administered partly in
 Brussels and partly in Luxembourg.
 As regards Brussels , where the Commission manages the appropriations
 independently , account has been taken of the budgetary authority 's wish for
 economies to be made .            The most expensive holiday camps have been withdrawn
  and parental contributions increased .                Prices now include transport costs
  and have been so designed that only officials on relatively low incomes
  receive a Commission subsidy .              As a result of these wide-ranging measures ,
  holiday camps for the children of Brussels staff will cost only 91 000 ECU
  in I98I » down from 197 000 ECU in 1980 , even though costs are up by between
  257° said 30fo»     Forecast expenditure in Brussels has been reduced by
  from 297 000 ECU in 1980 to 150 000 ECU .
 ---pagebreak--- The situation in Luxembourg is quite different : welfare appropriations
there are managed by an Interinstitutional Committee on Social Activities
representing all the institutions in Luxembourg . At thfe beginning of
the financial year , the Committee decides on the activities it -will
undertake , determines its overall financial requirements and divides the
amount among the various institutions in proportion to the , number of
officials employed .
The Committee requires 568 415 ECU for its 1981 activities , an increase
of 1.6$ over the 1980 figure .  A large proportion of this sum ( 80.6%)
wilJL be used to pay local staff in the cr&che , the child care centre
and the after-school centre ;  most of the rest will be spent on holiday
camps .  Since 80$ of the amount involves inescapable staff costs , there
is less scope for economies than in Brussels unless the interinstitutional
services axe abandoned completely , but , given the situation in Luxembourg,
they are quite indispensable .
Because of the reduction in appropriations , the Commission is no longer
able to meet its obligations .
Because of changes in staff numbers and- a 20$ rise in the share paid by
the smaller institutions because of certain infrastructure expenses ^ the
Commission 's contribution is only 28.2$ instead of 32.22$ in 1980 .
The amount required is therefore 160 292 ECU ( 28.2$ of 568 415 ECU).    The
 appropriation entered is for 200 000 ECU , of which only 50 000 ECU are
available for Luxembourg.
An increase of 110 000 ECU is therefore indispendable .
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                    –
                V       /     25 MARCH 1981
Amount e / ared in 1981 "budget :      5 000 000 ECU
      A
    /
 /.
                        Transfers  in progress
             Transfer    Article    Amount ( in ECU)
               2/81        262        1 000 000
                         1 210 )
               5/31      ι 213 1
                         ( 217 )
                                        665 000
                          TOTAL       1 665 000
             Still available :    3 335 000 ECU