Amending budget 5/2011: establishment plans of the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European External Action Service

The European Parliament adopted by 557 votes to 22, with 12 abstentions, a resolution on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2011 of the European Union for the financial year 2011, Section IX – European Data Protection Supervisor and Section X - European External Action Service.

Taking note of the Council's position on Draft amending budget No 5/2011, Parliament decided to amend the Council’s decision to amend the establishment plan of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).

To recall, according to the Commissions proposal, the EDPS Budget shall be amended by deleting an AD 14 post and creating an AD 15 post in the establishment plan of section IX.

Parliament considered that this appointment did not represent ‘an exceptional circumstance’ for the EDPS, as requested for in the Financial Regulation. Therefore the Council's position is amended by restoring the 2011 establishment plan of the EDPS.