2004 discharge: Eurojust

PURPOSE : presentation of the final accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2004.

CONTENT : this document published in the Official Journal of the EU sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the 2004 budget, including the revenue and expenditure and the balance sheet for the year concerned.

According to this document, the final budget amounted to EUR 9,3 million (compared to EUR  8 million in 2003) including a 100% Community subsidy.

As regards the staffing policy, Eurojust officially set out 76 posts in the establishment plan. 52 of these posts are occupied+ 13 other staff (auxiliary contracts, seconded national experts, local staff, 12 agency staff) totalling 65 staff carrying out operational, administrative and mixed tasks. Staff expenditure amounted to nearly EUR 4,1 million in 2004.

Eurojust’s objective is to improve the coordination of investigations and prosecutions covering the territories of several Member States of the European Union, as well as that of non-member States. In 2004, it held 52 meetings, examined 272 bilateral cases and 109 multilateral cases on the following issues:

- Fraud: 20 %;

- Drug-trafficking: 20 %;

- Terrorism: 7 %;

- Murder: 7 %;

- Trafficking in human beings: 4 %;

- Money-laundering: 7 %;

- Other: 35 %.

The total operating expenditure represented roughly EUR 1,5 million.

The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address:

www.eurojust.eu.int