Supplementary and amending budget 1/1997: section III Commission, section V Court of auditors

By adopting the report by Mr Laurens BRINKHORST (ELDR, NL) et Mr Juan Manuel FABRA VALLES (PPE, (E) on draft supplementary and amending budget No 1/97, Parliament approved the decision to grant the Commission 35 new posts to restructure DG XXIV and improve the coordination of the work of scientific committees. It called on the Commission to find the other posts required by means of redeployment, the conversion of vacant C posts into A posts and the 1998 post allocation; if these means should prove inadequate, it undertook to reconsider the situation. It also approved: - compensation of the additional expenditure arising from the new posts from the item 'Basic salaries' due to the favourable ECU/BF and ECU/FLUX rate, - the creation of a reserve for the agencies with unused subsidy appropriations, - the distribution of the reserve for the fourth framework programme of research, technological development and demonstration among the operational lines. Parliament called on the Commission to make use of the appropriations at its disposal to create 20 posts from 1997 in the anti-fraud unit (UCLAF), determining the nature of the posts in accordance with operating needs and available budgetary resources. Parliament approved the request from the Court of Auditors for the creation of 23 new posts, in addition to the 25 already provided for in the PDB for 1998. Altogether, therefore Parliament approved the creation of 48 new posts at the Court of Auditors.�