details on the results achieved by the EU budget and on how it is managedin the Annual Management and Performance Report; how the EU budget is financed and what Member States receive from the budget in the Financial Report; actions taken by the Commission and Member States to ensure the proper use of taxpayers' money in the Communication on the protection of the EU budget; the EU Annual Accounts containing financial information on the activities of the institutions, agencies and other bodies of the EU.

schedule performance index based on comparing budgeted cost of work performed with budgeted cost of work scheduled.

schedule performance index per major item of the programme based on comparing budgeted cost of work performed with budgeted cost of work scheduled;

Takes note of the Commission's proposal to cover the additional costs for ITER through performance savings deriving mainly from Joint Undertakings and administrative expenditure of FP7; recalls the added value of EU-financed research and its crucial role in reaching the goals of growth, competitiveness and employment enshrined in the Europe 2020 strategy; in line with the Interinstitutional Declaration of December 2011, decides, therefore, to partly compensate these decreases by setting commitments above DB on a selected number of operational FP7 lines directly underpinning the Europe 2020 strategy and characterised by excellent levels ...[+++] of implementation and strong absorption capacity; proposes to finance this partial offset above the available margin through the mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument for an amount of EUR 50 million;

These are designed to help regions in evaluating and selecting possible investment projects in particular in the light of the forthcoming mid-term review of the Structural Funds programmes and the subsequent allocation of the performance reserve - amounting to 4% of each programmes total budget.

The Commission will amend the programming documents only once to take account both of the mid-term review of programmes and the allocation of the performance reserve, a budget reserved for the programmes that perform the best, scheduled for the end of 2003.