80. Is surprised that once again this year the Council proposes linear cuts to the administrative expenditure for the institutions; reiterates that the budget of each Union institution, due to its specific mission and situation, should be treated individually, without ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions, taking into account the particular development stage, operational tasks, management goals, human resources needs and building policies of each institution; strongly disagrees with the Council's approach which horizontally inflates the vacancy rate by one percentage point, thus artificially increasing the margin; underlines that this increase, in additi ...[+++]on to the posts already suppressed by the 1 % staff reduction, would force certain institutions, already impacted by the above mentioned staff reduction, to freeze recruitment to vacant posts, thus hampering their functioning;

79. Is surprised that once again this year the Council proposes linear cuts to the administrative expenditure for the institutions; reiterates that the budget of each Union institution, due to its specific mission and situation, should be treated individually, without ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions, taking into account the particular development stage, operational tasks, management goals, human resources needs and building policies of each institution; strongly disagrees with the Council's approach which horizontally inflates the vacancy rate by one percentage point, thus artificially increasing the margin; underlines that this increase, in additi ...[+++]on to the posts already suppressed by the 1 % staff reduction, would force certain institutions, already impacted by the above mentioned staff reduction, to freeze recruitment to vacant posts, thus hampering their functioning;

Second, banks must pay extraordinary (‘ex-post’) contributions of up to 0.5 % of eligible deposits if necessary (If making this payment jeopardises a bank, it may be exempted by the competent authorities on an individual basis.) Consequently, ex-ante funds will account for 75 % of DGSs’ financing and ex-post contributions 25 %.

In case listed companies do not meet the objectives for non-executive directors or their own individual commitment as regards executive directors, they have to report on the reasons for this and also to describe the measures they have adopted or intend to take (Article 5(3)).

The proposal also includes, as an additional measure, a provision on a so-called "flexi quota" for executive boards (Article 5(1)), i.e. listed companies are to undertake individual commitments regarding gender-balanced representation of both sexes among executive directors, to be achieve by the same deadline as the 40 % objective for non-executive directors.

Former staff employed in different status (local agents of technical assistance – ALAT – and individual experts) were converted into contractual agent positions, which resulted in new recruitments under the conditions of employment of other servants of the Communities.