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"Mr President, we welcome Mr Kaczmarek’s report and the report of the Court of Auditors, both of which show that the exercise of devolution of external assistance is bringing positive results. I believe that, thanks to devolution, EU aid is now being delivered better, closer and faster to the beneficiaries. Of course, in order to fully exploit the potential of devolution we need to ensure staffing levels for the future. This is an area in which cooperation with Parliament is very much needed.
Having said that, we are committed to improving what both the Court of Auditors report and Mr Kaczmarek’s report identified as the real issues. We should do more to measure the results of our aid in order to move towards a more result-oriented culture. Given the restraints of human resources, we need to concentrate these where there is an identified need, and we have identified additional needs in Africa and in neighbourhood delegations.
As has been mentioned, the question of turnover is a real issue, given that 40% of our employees are contract agents with three-year contracts. Increasing this ratio could create a real problem in the future. Therefore, in order to mitigate the problem of contract agents and the turnover of agents, we are working to move the contracts of contract agents from the headquarters to delegations once their contracts are over, and we would like to see six-year contracts rather than shorter ones in the future. We call on the rapporteur and Parliament to support our efforts to achieve this.
The new External Action Service is very important for the future. We have agreed on working arrangements in order to divide the work. In addition, the delegation heads will have great responsibility: not only will they act as authorising officers, they will also be responsible for the consistency of the service. However – and this is still clear – the Commission is, in principle, responsible for the implementation of the budget, and the Commission is fully accountable to Parliament in this area.
To sum up, devolution is a positive development. We are ready to follow the advice and instructions set out in the Court of Auditors report and in Mr Kaczmarek’s report in order to make it even better in the future."@en1
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