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Mr President, I would like to set out the history and the role of European Data Protection Supervisor and the reasons for draft amending budget No 9. Earlier this year the European Data-Protection Supervisor and the Assistant Supervisor were appointed. This is three years after the regulation came into force. In February this year the Commission presented preliminary draft amending budget No 2, providing the appropriations for the budget lines in Section VIII (B) of the 2004 budget. The Commission proposed an overall amount of EUR 1.2 million for the Data Protection Supervisor to start his activities. The proposal was endorsed at the time by the Council and Parliament, and the new Data Protection Supervisor Mr Hustinx and the Assistant Supervisor Mr Delgado have started working and are based in the premises of the European Parliament. So, this amending budget No 9 will modify the appropriations of the EDPS by topping up the amount granted in amending budget No 2, which was passed earlier this year.
However, it should be noted that the figures that were originally foreseen in amending budget No 2 were only for nine months. They were predicted in 2001 and the fact is that the Data Protection Supervisor came into being in 2004. As a result of this delay of two years, this particular amending budget is necessary because we need to increase the appropriations in commitments by over EUR 670 000 and in revenue by EUR 170 000.
Furthermore, additional amounts of some EUR 300 000 are needed to cover ongoing legal commitments. This includes remuneration of members of the institution; there is an adjustment to the appropriations for staff; there are also issues with regard to graduate traineeships and exchanges of officials. In addition, there is a requirement for rent and for data processing and telecommunications.
I am also proposing that we enter EUR 200 000 in the reserve. We will be reducing some of the appropriations for mission expenses, secretarial allowances, translation and interpretation costs, as well as expenditure on publishing and information.
As I said earlier, these problems came about because the European Parliament and the Council adopted the regulation in 2001. The main purpose of this regulation is the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies. With regard to the free movement of such data, this regulation established an independent supervisory authority, called the European Data Protection Supervisor. This Supervisor is responsible for monitoring the processing of personal data by Community institutions and will work with each institution and its data protection officer. The Supervisor will deal with sensitive personal data, relating for example to health methods and evaluation of staff.
I am pleased to inform the House that the Council has adopted this draft amending budget. However, I need to point out that in the debate in the Committee on Budgets there were some reservations about the costs. Given that this is a newly established institution, we are prepared to accept this particular budget as it is. Yet I do want to make it clear that in the future we want to see greater budgetary rigour as well as better planning and forecasting on the part both of the Commission and these new institutions that we are establishing. I appreciate that there are constraints in relation to how the money can be spent, the legal basis, and so on. However, we have to ensure that we have better forecasting.
Looking at the number of amending budgets and so forth, we must also remember that we are at a critical point and that Parliament will be establishing a new temporary committee on the financial perspectives. It is therefore important that whilst we fight for our main political objectives – which will be enshrined in the new financial perspectives – we also examine some of the internal structures, as well as inter–institutional arrangements.
Our internal procedures are often too complicated for the EU citizen to understand. We need to simplify the budgetary process. It is important to remember that what we are doing today is not just a question of technical information in the report: it matters to my constituents in West Midlands and it matters to everybody's constituents across Europe. This new institution will protect our citizens in relation to data processing, which is ever–increasing. That is a good thing and I am very pleased to recommend to the House that we adopt this amending budget as it stands."@en1
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