Activites

• 2001/12/19 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Budget 2001/874
  • OJ L 336 19.12.2001, p. 0001
• #2358
• 2001/07/05 Council Meeting
• 2001/07/05 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0387/2001 summary

    By adopting the reports by Mrs Jutta HAUG (PES, D) and Mr Markus FERBER (EPP-ED, D), the European Parliament approved at first reading the two Draft Supplementary and Amending Budgets in a single procedure in order to avoid needless administrative costs and to speed up implementation of the proposed changes. It adopts, in accordance with the results on the budget amendments, a single budgetary act, which includes Draft Supplementary and Amending Budgets No 3/2001 and No 4/2001. DSAB 3/2001 deals essentially with amendments to staffing in the institutions. For the Commission, it anticipates the creation of posts in research and development and also in the anti-fraud office (OLAF). Moreover, it agrees to set up 27 new posts for shared-cost RTD projects but decides that the 15 posts dedicated for administrative purposes should be placed in the lower levels of the corresponding categories. Furthermore, the Parliament welcomes the approval of the budgetary amendment tothe OLAF establishment plan modifying the breakdown between permanent and temporary posts and restoring the 3 posts deleted by the Council and enters EUR 3.8 billion in reserve until a redeployment of 10 A officials from OLAF to the Commission services is achieved and until a favourable opinion is given by OLAF Supervisory Committee. With regard to the DSAB 4/2001, it deals with savings in the budget for 2000, which amount to some EUR 11.6 billion. The House supports proposal to use some of these savings to go towards extra aid for the reconstruction for the Western Balkans this year. Parliament proposed that Council's figures of EUR 350 million should be increased to EUR 450 million. During the debate, the Commissioner Michaele SCHREYER declared that the Commission accepted this amendment.

• 2001/07/04 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2001/07/02 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2001/06/25 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0239/2001
• 2001/06/15 Council draft budget published
  • 09802/2001 summary

    On 2 May 2001, the Commission sent the Council preliminary draft supplementary and amending budget (PDSAB) No 3 for the financial year 2001; it concerns Sections III (Commission), VI (Economic and Social Committee) and VII (Committee of the Regions). The PDSAB relates mainly to the establishment plans of these institutions and does not change the total amount of expenditure appropriations. On 18 June 2001, the Council established draft supplementary and amending budget No 3 for the financial year 2001 in accordance with the Commission's proposal, except for the incorporation in OLAF's establishment plan of three temporary A7 staff responsible in particular for drafting the Green Paper on the European Public Prosecutor. The corresponding appropriations have been reduced by EUR 221 832 in Chapter 11 of the budget for the Office. After establishment of this DSAB, the new margin available under the ceiling for that heading stands at EUR 25,08 million.�

• 2001/05/02 Commission preliminary draft budget published
  • SEC(2001)0663 summary

    PURPOSE : to present the preliminary draft supplementary and amending budget 3/2001 concerning the changes proposed in the establishment plans of several of the institutions: the Commission, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. CONTENT : the present preliminary draft supplementary and amending budget 3/2001 presents the changes proposed in the establishment plans of several institutions: the Commission (as regards research and development activities and the European anti-Fraud Office), the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. The common aspect in all the proposed changes is that there is no need to change the revenue side nor the expenditure total. This is because of the time that will be required to complete the recruitment procedures, after completion of the procedure for the adoption of the SAB itself. It can be expected that the proposed new posts will be filled towards the end of the year, and so will have no significant impact on this year's budget. The main change proposed for research and development activities is the creation of 27 new posts in the establishment plan for Research and Technological Development - Indirect actions. This will address the needs identified for these activities by the 'peer review' exercise in 2000, and not presented in the Letter of Amendment No 1/2000 (where 400 new posts were requested for the Commission's activities other than research) because further studies were going on at the time on the needs of the research and development areas. The proposed tranfer of appropriations included in this PDSAB, between administrative and operational lines within Subsection B6, is designed to balance the staff needs between specific programmes. The proposed changes for the European Anti-Fraud Office seeks to provide the right balance between permanent and temporary posts within the new Office, in line with the Commission communication on its strategy for the protection of financial interests and the fight against fraud (presented in June 2000) and with Parliament's resolution of 16 May 2000. The OLAF proposals, submitted in February 2001 and approved by the Supervisory Committee on 30 March 2001, should allow the Parliament to unblock the 76 posts voted in the 2001 budget, thus allowing the Office to implement its new human resource policy for its investigative tasks. The requests demanded by the Economic and Social Committee and by the Committee of the Regions, and hereby transmitted by the Commission, are linked to the renovation of the Belliard building and the agreement between these institutions and the European Parliament on the statute and management of Belliard and Montoyer buildings. One supplementary temporary post is requested by each of the two institutions in order to complete the team monitoring the renovation of the Belliard building. �

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}],

Documents

• Commission preliminary draft budget published: SEC(2001)0663
• Council draft budget published: 09802/2001
• Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A5-0239/2001
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0387/2001
• : Budget 2001/874
• : OJ L 336 19.12.2001, p. 0001

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)