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"Mr President, the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party also wants to say that we very strongly support the initiatives you have put in place in the personnel area, Mr Kinnock. It is no easy task you have embarked upon, and it is therefore important for Parliament to offer its full support. It has, of course, been a widespread feature of society over the last few years that organisations have been obliged to re-think the way they organise their work in order to maintain competitiveness and exploit the opportunities offered by modern technology and public administration and, in so doing, give the electorate full value for their tax contributions. Moreover, it is precisely the electorate that has a lot of difficulty understanding why the EU’s institutions maintain such a rigid and old-fashioned personnel policy in which promotions are made on the basis of very formal criteria rather than on the basis of effort. There is no grass-roots understanding of why EU employees do not have to meet the demands for fresh thinking, flexibility and adaptation that apply in the rest of society.
In that connection, I should like, on behalf of the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, to support the Commission’s proposal for the linear career structure which has been mentioned quite a few times this evening and in which promotions are made on the basis of ability and effort. I should also like to regret the fact that, in a letter to the President of the Commission, Mr Prodi, the President of the European Parliament in actual fact went against Parliament’s own views on this point, as expressed in the Harbour report. Moreover, I hope that this has not created too much in the way of difficulties for the Commission in the negotiations. It is vital that the Commission’s reforms should involve a personnel policy that rewards commitment, hard work and adaptability, and that is something we must support. Against that background, I shall look forward to the Commission’s compromise proposal for a career structure. I should also like to acknowledge the Commissioner’s pointing out what is creating the problems in Heading 5. I think that remark was rather apposite."@en1
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