11. Without prejudice to Articles 14 and 15, a person discharging managerial responsibilities within an issuer shall not conduct any transactions on its own account or for the account of a third party, directly or indirectly, relating to the shares or debt instruments of the issuer or to derivatives or other financial instruments linked to them during a closed period of 30 calendar days before the announcement of an interim financial report or a year-end report which the issuer is obliged to make public according to:

4. Acknowledges from the AAR that for the financial year 2011, the Agency's automatic carry forward to 2012 amounted to EUR 2 161 172; notes, furthermore, that in terms of the share of payments in compliance with the time limits of the Financial Regulation, 87 % of all payments were made within the legal targets. For commercial invoices, 79 % were paid within the 30 legal days and around 91 % of cost claims (reimbursements to staff and experts) were paid within the 45 legal days; encourages the Court of Auditors to mention informati ...[+++]on on carryovers in its report on the annual accounts of the Agency for the financial year 2012;

70. Notes that, in 2010, there were 33 200 missions (official trips) representing a total of 98 629 mission days, most of them involving travel between Parliament's three places of work; reiterates the need to avoid unnecessary missions between the three working places and the costs they entail with more systematic and documentary justifications and better monitoring; requests that the Secretary General report, as part of the discharge procedure, on any savings made as a result of further rationalisation and on further initiatives that have been taken or that are in preparation leading to fewer missions; is further of the opinion that, in general, no committee meeting s ...[+++]hould take place in Strasbourg with the exception of those committees of which the agenda is directly linked to the reports or discussions on that week's part session's agenda; encourages the Court of Auditors to further analyse the existing mission procedures and to provide recommendations in order to improve their efficiency; asks the Secretary-General specifically to review the posts based outside of Brussels, particularly for those staff members who undertake repeated missions to Brussels, to ascertain if they need to be relocated; suggests that the agreement with the Luxembourg authorities, which fixes the number of Parliament staff based in Luxembourg without regard to any evolving needs of Parliament, may need to be revised;

29. Calls on the Commission to reintroduce the mechanisms for dialogue among Member States, competent authorities and professional bodies with a view to updating, as regularly as possible and in line with scientific and technical developments, the minimum training requirements for the sectoral professions in order to reflect current professional practice, to update the current classification of economic activities based on professional experience, and to establish a simple mechanism for continually updating minimum training requirements; taking into account the future developments of the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes, urges the Commi ...[+++]ssion to evaluate the introduction of a competence-based approach by defining minimum training requirements in terms not only of duration of training, but also of learning outcomes;

4. Welcomes improvements in KPI 5, 6 and 7 from 2008 to 2009, and notes with satisfaction that the Court of Auditors has met its targets as regards KPI 8 and 9; notes that the Court of Auditors did not reach its target as regards Key Performance Indicator 10, in 2009 in comparison to 2008 the number of training days decreased from 10 to 9, and the number of days devoted by auditors to professional training excluding language courses dropped from 7 to 4, not reaching the International Federation of Accountants' guidelines (40 hours/5 days);

4. Welcomes improvements in KPI 5, 6 and 7 from 2008 to 2009, and notes with satisfaction that the Court of Auditors has met its targets as regards KPI 8 and 9; notes that the Court of Auditors did not reach its target as regards Key Performance Indicator 10, in 2009 in comparison to 2008 the number of training days decreased from 10 to 9, and the number of days devoted by auditors to professional training excluding language courses dropped from 7 to 4, not reaching the International Federation of Accountants' guidelines (40 hours/5 days);