Activites

• 2004/04/30 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Budget 2004/378
  • OJ L 148 30.04.2004, p. 0181-0187
• 2004/04/22 Draft budget approved by Council
• 2004/04/22 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0359/2004 summary

    By adopting the report by Jan MULDER (ELDR, NL), the European Parliament followed the recommendations made by the committee responsible and approved the Draft amending budget 6/2004 of the European Union for the financial year 2004 which aims to create a new budget line 06 01 04 30 for "Executive Agency for Intelligent Energy". The 2004 subsidy to the Agency is estimated to amount to EUR 2 770 000. The Parliament welcomes the fact that the Commission is engaged in informing the Parliament before the creation of any new Executive Agency and approves the Code of Conduct annexed to this resolution. This Code stipulates that : - in accordance with Council Regulation 58/2003/EC of 19 December 2002 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes and with Council Regulation 1605/2002/ EC, Euratom of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities, the Commission shall state its intention to set-up an executive agency in the explanatory memorandum of its proposal for a legal act of the programme itself; - the Commission shall decide on the establishment of an Executive Agency on the basis of its assessment of the criteria laid down in Council Regulation 58/2003/EC; - the budgetary authority shall be informed of the results of this evaluation and about costs at least 6 weeks before the Commission takes the final decision to set up the Agency. In the event of duly justified reasons being raised within this period by either branch of the budgetary authority regarding the setting up of the agency, the Commission will review its proposal; - when the Commission contemplates setting up an Executive Agency, it informs the budgetary authority in accordance with the budgetary procedure and respecting the principle of transparency. There should be a specific financial statement for the Executive Agency. It should include quantified elements where the Commission justifies the reasons why it considers appropriate to set up an Agency to assist it in the implementation of the programme concerned. It indicates in particular: - the resources in terms of appropriations and jobs required to run the Executive Agency; - the planned secondments of officials from the Commission to the Executive Agency; - administrative resources freed by transferring tasks from the Commission departments to the Executive Agency, and the re-allocation of the human resources; - consecutive redeployment within the Commission's establishment plan including the number of vacant posts; - the impact of the creation of the Agency under headings 3 [4] and 5 of the financial perspective; - the advantages of delegating implementing tasks to an Executive Agency versus direct management by the Commission services; - a draft establishment plan per grade and per category; - the part of the programme managed internally and the part delegated to an Executive Agency; - the global administrative cost of the programme including internal and management expenditure for the Executive Agency (chapter 01) should be examined case by case and proportional tothe tasks provided for in the programme concerned; - the Commission proposes, as part of the annual budget procedure, the annual subsidy to the Agency's operating budget. This subsidy is entered in the general budget of the European Union; - the establishment plan of the Executive Agency during the financial year concerned shall be approved by the budgetary authority and published in an annex to Section III (Commission) of the general budget of the European Union; - the Commission indicates regularly its forecasts (APS, PDB) for new Executive Agencies; - the Commission should provide the budgetary authority with the Executive Agency's draft operational budget and annual activity report as well as with an assessment report after 3 years.

• 2004/04/21 Council draft budget published
  • 08539/2004 summary

    On 21 April 2004, the Council produced draft amending budget No 6 for the financial year 2004 in line with the preliminary draft budget 6/2004 proposed by the Commission (please see previous summary). Under this draft amending budget 6/2004, the total appropriations in the 2004 budget remained unchanged.

• 2004/04/05 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0259/2004
• 2004/03/16 Commission preliminary draft budget published
  • SEC(2004)0321 summary

    PURPOSE : preliminary draft amending budget to create a new budget line 06 01 04 30 "Executive Agency for Intelligent Energy" to receive this Agency's operating subsidy. CONTENT : The multiannual programme for action in the field of energy: "Intelligent Energy - Europe" was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on 26 June 2003. In the light of the cost-benefit analysis carried out and in order to achieve more efficiently the objectives set by this Community programme, it was considered necessary to have an Executive Agency perform certain management tasks; the Commission accordingly adopted Decision 1230/2003/EC on 23 December 2003, in line with the opinion of the Committee for Executive Agencies, setting up the Intelligent Energy Executive Agency. The Commission decision states that the Agency will receive a grant which will be entered in the general budget of the European Communities from the funds allocated to the Community programme Intelligent Energy - Europe. The new budget line will receive appropriations from the other budget lines for the programme. In the Commission decision setting up the above executive agency, the estimate of the annual operating expenditure of the Agency in 2004 assumed that the Agency would start operating in January 2004 with eight seconded officials. It also assumed that the remaining staff would join from May 2004. Under these assumptions the Commission estimated the 2004 subsidy to the Agency to be EUR 3.385 million. The Commission now expects the Agency to start operating in May 2004, including the eight seconded officials. Therefore, the annual subsidy in 2004 should be adapted to take into account the reduced operating costs that result. The 2004 subsidy to the Agency will amount to EUR 2.770 million. This appropriation constitutes the subsidy to cover the executive agency's expenditure on personnel and administration.�

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

Documents

• Commission preliminary draft budget published: SEC(2004)0321
• Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A5-0259/2004
• Council draft budget published: 08539/2004
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0359/2004
• : Budget 2004/378
• : OJ L 148 30.04.2004, p. 0181-0187

History

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