Traduction de «Fonctionnaire des finances » (Français → Anglais) :

While the rate of the special levy in force during the period from 2004 to 2012 increased gradually over time and averaged at 4.23 %, it seems appropriate in the present circumstances to increase the solidarity levy at the uniform rate of 6%, so as to help to finance the Union’s growth and employment policies from the Union's budget and to take account of a difficult economic context and its ramifications for public finances throughout the European Union, Such a solidarity levy should apply to all officials and other servants of the European Union for the same period as the ‘method’ itself.

Those eligible for election as President shall be Committee members who are senior officials in national administrations and the President of the preparatory body referred to in Article 1 of Protocol No 14 on the euro Group, composed of representatives of the Ministers with responsibility for finance of the Member States whose currency is the euro and of the Commission (“the Eurogroup Working Group”).

9. Welcomes the growing effectiveness of the fight against corruption, including actions taken against a number of former leading politicians and officials as well as the introduction of new improved laws regarding access to information, conflict of interests and the financing of political activities; notes, however, that Croatia is in 62nd place on Transparency International’s corruption index; encourages, therefore, further consolidation of the efforts in this area and endorses the Commission’s statement that corruption is still prevalent in some areas and that there is further progress to be made in the fight against corruption; su ...[+++]pports all the necessary commitments and legal, administrative and auditing measures that the Croatian authorities will take to that end, especially with regard to the protection of the EU’s financial interests and control of EU funding; calls on the Commission to incorporate a traffic-light system into its progress reports in order to guarantee the clarity of those reports and to give its critical remarks greater weight, so that improvements and where appropriate, setbacks are highlighted;

48. Is concerned by the excessive administrative burden of FP7; stresses that simplification measures that do not require a change of regulation should be implemented as soon as possible, while respecting simplicity, stability, consistency, legal certainty, transparency, excellence and trust, and encourages the Commission to explore further simplification measures, including contributions in kind by applicants, as well as a further alignment with calculation and accounting methods used in national funding systems; calls on the Commission to take urgent measures to significantly shorten the time from application to grant, reduce bureaucratic procedures for preparing, submitting and assessing project (including through the use of an EU appl ...[+++]ication portal based on the equivalent U.S. model), reduce the number of periodic financial status reports and auditing documents per reporting period, and find a better balance between research risk and control; stresses that a risk-averse culture of EU research funding would prevent financing of high-risk research ideas with the highest potential for breakthroughs, and therefore suggests that a trust-based approach with higher tolerance for risk and failure should be taken, as opposed to a purely results-based approach which could hamper innovative research; recommends a simplified interpretation and further clarification of the definition of eligible costs; supports the proposal to review the Financial Regulation to simplify procedures and calls for the revision and/or extended interpretation of the EU Staff Regulations on the issue of personal liability; calls for more precise, consistent and transparent procedural rules for audits, including by using less random sampling and more realistic criteria, such as the experience of participants and the background of errors and compliance;

Beyond the procedural cooperation provisions, the CPC Regulation aims at encouraging the exchange of best practice and cooperation through working together in common projects or joint activities as well as a scheme for the exchange of officials for which the Commission provides funding. The range of activities is therefore very broad: from seminars, training courses, awareness-raising measures to projects developing common standards, methodologies and enforcement techniques.

3. Can the Commission guarantee that, in future, the response to criticism by officials of financial management and financial control will not be to transfer those concerned to another post or to dismiss them, but to hold a public debate for the purpose of assessing the actual facts and to actively invite critical officials, former officials and external experts to give their comments?