EC staff regulation: adjustment of the daily subsistence allowance rates for officials on mission

The Committee on Budgets unanimously adopted the draft resolution on the amendment of the articles of the Staff Regulations applicable to officials and other Community agents with regard to mission expenses. Although the committee considered that the amendments and addenda to the regulations in question were both relevant and essential, it hoped for the implementation of an active policy of rationalization of administrative expenditure by all the institutions. This could be achieved by adopting a series of specific measures for good financial management and, in particular, by requiring each institution to make an effective undertaking in the form of a programme of work when the estimates for the budgetary year in question were presented in order to ensure that the cost of mission expenses were kept under control.�