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"Mr President, I would like to thank the Court of Auditors for the work it has put into the discharge. As one of the shadows on the agencies report I wanted to concentrate on that in my contribution and to thank the rapporteur for his work. The S&D Group will be following the Budget Control Committee’s position and vote to grant discharge on all the agencies except the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT). However I would hope that the EIT can show enough progress in the coming months to allow us to grant it discharge also later this year.
The S&D Group has put down a number of amendments to the horizontal report, mainly relating to staffing issues. For example, we oppose the imposition of extra staffing cuts above those already-agreed targets. Additionally we would oppose cuts which would mean that the agencies would have difficulty in fulfilling their mandates. Indeed some of the agencies, according to the agencies network, are already having difficulties because of a lack of staff.
We believe staffing budgets should be based on how each agency has to fulfil its mandate and not based on arbitrary figures or indeed arbitrary cuts. We also believe that agencies which get their funding from fees should have greater flexibility in their staffing requirements."@en1
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