2000 budget : other sections

The report was adopted by the Committee. Ms MÜLLER's report on the budgets of the other institutions stresses that these must, in the medium term, make preparations with a view to enlargement. Transparency, mobility and constantly improving professional standards are identified as the ways to ensure increased efficiency. The report restates the need for interinstitutional cooperation, which it says has proved its worth, and calls for a consistent and concerted property policy between the institutions. As regards Parliament in particular, the report calls on the Council to approve as swiftly as possible the proposal for a Statute for Members of the European Parliament put forward by the EP itself.