Delegation of supporting tasks that are linked to its depositary tasks, such as administrative or technical functions performed by the depositary as a part of its depositary tasks, is not subject to the specific limitations and requirements set out in this Directive.

42. Points out that exercising democratic scrutiny over the Commission is a core task of Parliament and requests the Bureau and the administration to allocate the necessary comitology posts for this task, taking into account the new responsibilities of Parliament in the field of foreign affairs and development policy programmes; moreover, emphasises the importance of strengthening Parliament's administrative capacities with regard to its new powers of democratic scrutiny over the external assistance instruments; therefore asks the Secretary General to redeploy two AD posts, one to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and one to the Committ ...[+++]ee on Development, in the course of 2008, as soon as a vacancy occurs in any of the departments which have been identified as 'negative priorities';

40. Points out that exercising democratic scrutiny over the Commission is a core task of Parliament and requests the Bureau and the administration to allocate the necessary comitology posts for this task, taking into account the new responsibilities of Parliament in the field of foreign affairs and development policy programmes; moreover, emphasises the importance of strengthening Parliament's administrative capacities with regard to its new powers of democratic scrutiny over the external assistance instruments; invites the administration to submit by March 2008 an evaluation report on the political and administrative experience acquir ...[+++]ed in the implementation of these powers;

42. Points out that exercising democratic scrutiny over the Commission is a core task of Parliament and requests the Bureau and the administration to allocate the necessary comitology posts for this task, taking into account the new responsibilities of Parliament in the field of foreign affairs and development policy programmes; moreover, emphasises the importance of strengthening Parliament's administrative capacities with regard to its new powers of democratic scrutiny over the external assistance instruments; therefore asks the Secretary General to redeploy two AD posts, one to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and one to the Committ ...[+++]ee on Development, in the course of 2008, as soon as a vacancy occurs in any of the departments which have been identified as 'negative priorities';

In addition, in its replies to the questionnaire drawn up by the Committee on Budgetary Control concerning the 2001 discharge - Section III, under point 3, Externalisation of administrative tasks (in particular questions 3.1 to 3.10, pp. 16 et seq.), the Commission provides outline answers on the issue of the cost/benefit analysis of the externalisation of administrative tasks, the dismantling of the TAOs, the subsidies for the 'agencies' granted from the Community budget in the financial years 1997-2001, the criteria to be employed in identifying tasks suitable for externalisation, decisions concerning the externalisation of Eurostat's ...[+++]tasks, etc.

(c) of administrative resources freed by transferring tasks from the Commission departments to the executive agency, and the re-allocation of those freed administrative resources.