2006 discharge : European Police College CEPOL

PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Police Collegefor the 2006 financial year.

CONTENT: the European Police College was established by Council Decision 2000/820/JHA, as repealed in 2005 and replaced by Council Decision 2005/681/JHA.

The College’s task is to function as a network and bring together the national training institutes in the Member States to provide training sessions, based on common standards, for senior police officers.

The College became fully autonomous in 2006.

This document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the College’s budget for 2006. It indicates that the Agency’s final budget amounted to 5 million EUR in 2006 - its first year of operation – 100% of which is derived from a Community subsidy.

In terms of personnel, the College, whose headquarters are in Bramshill (UK) officially had 22.5 posts provided for in the establishment plan, of which only 7 were occupied in 2006 and 8 further posts (seconded national experts and contract staff, etc) amounting to 15 effective posts. Expenditures relating to personnel in 2006 amounted to 1.46 million EUR.

Given that 2006 was the year the College was launched, no information was provided on its activities in the course of that financial year.

Full details of the College’s accounts are available from the following address: http://www.cepol.europa.eu