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Mr President, I would like to make it quite clear that we are in favour of both the general lines of the policy proposed by the Commission and the general lines of the report which Mr Galeote Quecedo has just mentioned. When I say ‘we’, I mean, of course, the Committee on Budgets.
The Committee on Budgets simply wishes to draw the attention of all those involved to two basic problems. Firstly, there is the need to move quickly. We believe that the reform should be carried out rapidly and ambitiously. Reform means increasing deconcentration and grouping together a certain number of delegations which are fewer in number but better equipped administratively and extended by branch offices with minimum representation.
Secondly, reform means the active vertical redeployment of staff from Brussels to delegations. We are well aware that there is some resistance among Commission staff, resistance of a human, social nature which we understand, as regards this redeployment. This resistance must be broken down.
Thirdly, there is the problem of horizontal redeployment. There are some delegations which are overworked, and some posts is which there is not enough to do, and we are not always aware of objective criteria having been used to decide on staff distribution.
Fourthly, we need a better balance, a more homogenous balance, between regular Commission staff and local agents who are less costly but who do not have, as it were, the ‘central memory’ of the institution. Both types of staff are necessary and the balance between the two needs to be rationally organised.
Therefore, Commissioner, we expect you to proceed more quickly and further in this direction, which we know is the direction you wish to move in. We shall support you in that movement, but we shall oppose you if by any chance you should drag your feet, which I am sure you will not.
The second point that I should like to mention quickly is the budgetary aspect. The Committee on Budgets is in favour of a qualitative reform which will give rise to higher costs, because redeployment has to be paid for, but the Committee on Budgets is against any increase in staff numbers in the external services. Costs may rise, yes, but a rise in staff numbers, no, because if we increase staffing levels this would put the brake on redeployment measures."@en1
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