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

In adopting the report by Mr Laurens BRINKHORST (ELDR, NL) and Mr Juan FABRA VALLES (PPE, E) on draft supplementary and amending budget No 1/97, Parliament welcomed Council approval of the decision to grant the Commission 35 new posts in order to set up the structures required for the reorganization of the services of DG XXIV (Consumer policy and consumer health protection) and to improve coordination of the work of the scientific committees. After noting the Council's reasons, it decided to retable a number of amendments concerning: - the creation of new posts aimed at augmenting the establishment plan of the Court of Auditors in the auditing sector (23 posts instead of the 10 posts approved by the Council); - the creation of a reserve for the Agencies with unused subsidy appropriations, - the distribution of the reserve for the fourth framework research programme on the operational lines, so as to support Parliament's priorities in the matter of anti-personnel mines.�