Translation of "Agent de contrôle budgétaire des programmes " (French → English) :

– (DE) Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, from the point of view of budgetary control, the Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2008 is a disappointment because key issues and problems relating to budgetary control simply do not feature in the programme.

– (DE) Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, from the point of view of budgetary control, the Commission Legislative and Work Programme for 2008 is a disappointment because key issues and problems relating to budgetary control simply do not feature in the programme.

78. Recalls that in the course of the 2007 budget procedure Parliament called on the Commission to carry out a mid-term evaluation of its staff needs and to provide a detailed report on its support staff and coordination functions; invites its administration to proceed to an evaluation of its staff, on that basis and using the same instruments; wishes to see an evaluation report submitted to the Committee on Budgetary Control in good time for the 2007 discharge; in this connection, wishes to know how many officials and other servants have the task of aiding Members in their work of co-legislation, how many work fo ...[+++]r the parliamentary delegations, and how many are employed in administrative support tasks for Parliament;

79. Recalls that in the course of the 2007 budget procedure Parliament called on the Commission to carry out a mid-term evaluation of its staff needs and to provide a detailed report on its support staff and coordination functions; invites its administration to proceed to an evaluation of its staff, on that basis and using the same instruments; wishes to see an evaluation report submitted to the Committee on Budgetary Control in good time for the 2007 discharge; in this connection, wishes to know how many officials and other servants have the task of aiding Members in their work of co-legislation, how many work fo ...[+++]r the parliamentary delegations, and how many are employed in administrative support tasks for Parliament;

There is an overriding need for a Management Board in the Monitoring Centre to provide overall policy direction within the framework of the Council Regulation and to perform certain supervisory functions such as the establishment of work programmes and budgetary control.

2002 is the second year of actual implementation of most programmes, and the payment appropriations could once again prove greater than actual execution: for the period 2000-06 because of delays between the start of aid measures on the ground and the declaration of payments to the Commission, and for 1994-99 because of the late claims for final payments due to delays in the Member States in checking the expenditure declared during the programming period.