When Senator Kenny spoke, he said something to the effect that committees do not operate rigidly but loosely.

The new international legal framework is designed to facilitate the financing of aircraft equipment, namely aircraft, engines and accessories, by creating a particularly strong international guarantee for lenders (sellers on credit and institutions supplying credit for such sales).

18. Recalls that monitoring and evaluation are basic and recurrent tasks of public administrations and that their systematic externalisation is incomprehensible and undesirable; stresses that, where the European Institutions feel that evaluations carried out by national and Community administrations, as well as by internal and external auditors, need to be supplemented by an external evaluation, the evaluation body must be selected on the basis of its skills and of its independence vis-à-vis the programme or the actions being evaluated; calls upon the Commission, therefore, to phase out any "framework" contract concluded with ...[+++] external bodies for the evaluation of the current programmes and to refrain from hiring any external body on a repeated basis for the purpose of evaluation; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to refrain from hiring, for evaluation purposes, any external body that has had a previous contractual relationship with the Commission for the designing, monitoring or evaluating of actions or measures involved in these programmes;

18. Recalls that monitoring and evaluation are basic and recurrent tasks of public administrations and that their systematic externalisation is incomprehensible and undesirable; stresses that, where the European Institutions feel that evaluations carried out by national and Community administrations, as well as by internal and external auditors, need to be supplemented by an external evaluation, the evaluation body must be selected on the basis of its skills and of its independence vis-à-vis the programme or the actions being evaluated; calls upon the Commission, therefore, to phase out any "framework" contract concluded with ...[+++] external bodies for the evaluation of the current programmes and to refrain from hiring any external body on a repeated basis for the purpose of evaluation; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to refrain from hiring, for evaluation purposes, any external body that has had a previous contractual relationship with the Commission for the designing, monitoring or evaluating of actions or measures involved in these programmes;

The international legal framework is intended to ‘facilitate the financing of high-value aircraft equipment by creating a particularly strong international guarantee for creditors (sellers on credit and institutions supplying credit for such sales) which gives them “absolute” priority over these assets in an international register’ (Commission, SEC(2002) 1308 final/2).

These changes were recently introduced in the federal budget. They will create a less rigid and more responsive operating environment in which a faster, lower cost and more efficient system may evolve, the benefits of which will be shared by all.