2. Highlights the strategic relevance of the Single Market Act, and of the identification of the ‘twelve levers’ for sustainable, smart and inclusive growth, as an important contribution to strengthening the Single Market in a comprehensive and balanced manner; emphasises that the Single Market Act is the result of a broad stakeholder and inter-institutional consultation process;

38. Restores the PDB for the cuts made by Council to appropriations and establishment plans in heading 5; places EUR 49 million in reserve pending the provision of the abovementioned data and studies; wishes to maintain and develop a constructive inter-institutional dialogue regarding ongoing efforts to improve administrative practices in the EU institutions; underlines the importance of adequate recruitment from "EU 12" Member States; takes the view that, in connection with enlargement, documents of relevance to discussions and decisions, such as, for example, impact assessments, should be made available in all languages necessary, ...[+++]since those documents are tools for better lawmaking; recalls in this connection that its Committee on Budgets has launched, via two studies, a process to analyse the objectives of the administrative reform of the Commission, focusing on the introduction of activity-based budgeting (ABB) and activity-based management (ABM), the introduction of the strategic planning cycle and allocation of the related administrative expenditure;

Following those discussions in the Inter-institutional Staff Regulations Committee the legislative proposals of the Commission for revision of parts of the existing Staff Regulations will be given final consideration by the Commission and then laid before Council and Parliament.

Following those discussions in the Inter-institutional Staff Regulations Committee the legislative proposals of the Commission for revision of parts of the existing Staff Regulations will be given final consideration by the Commission and then laid before Council and Parliament.

The Commission will encourage inter-institutional cooperation amongst EU institutions and bodies, in particular with the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and its Disability Intergroup.

The IDA Programme also contributed to facilitating inter-institutional communication and the Community decision-making process, e.g. via management of official documents and e-mail support for committees, and the operation of the European Agencies, e.g. in the pharmaceutical sector or through the connection of European environmental organisations.