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"Mr President, first I would like to thank Mr Ferber for an excellent report. I know that it was the result of hard negotiations in which the rapporteur and the other representatives of the Committee on Budgets successfully defended the rights of the European Parliament.
With the supplementary and amending budget the Council intends to set up three new directorates within its General Secretariat to implement the common European security and defence policy. These directorates are: 1. a Political Affairs Directorate, 2. an Operations and Exercises Directorate, and 3. an External Action Mechanisms Directorate. There would be a total of 140 employees involved in this new organisation, of which 51 would be in newly created posts. One’s attention is drawn the urgency of the situation. Why is there such a hurry to create the new posts immediately, even though the actual budget is to be discussed in a few months’ time?
Another problem is the overlapping of functions. The structure of the organisation menacingly indicates that the same functions are to be discharged in the areas of both crisis prevention and civil crisis management in the Commission and the Council. This overlapping must definitely be prevented.
Under pressure from Parliament, the Council is now creating a special Title in its budget for the common security and defence policy. It is obvious that this will involve the creation of an entirely new Council activity, which will, in fact, have nothing to do with normal administrative expenditure. For this reason the ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ between Parliament and the Council, according to which they undertake not to interfere in each other’s budgets, cannot be extended to these actions. Expenditure relating to the common security and defence policy falls within the competence of Parliament.
Finally, it should be noted that the margin for ‘Administrative Expenditure’ in heading 5 is now only EUR 34 million. On the threshold of enlargement this is so little that it does not make possible any operative additional expenditure at the cost of administrative expenditure."@en1
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