102. Deplores that, despite the continued increase in the volume of judicial activity and the planned reform of the General Court, the Commission has reduced staffing by 20 posts, thereby risking creating bottlenecks and jeopardising the proper functioning and prompt dispensation of justice; decides therefore to reinstate the 20 posts initially requested by the Court;

In the present case, as the job description contained in the vacancy notice corresponded to administrative and advisory functions, functions which, according to Article 5(2) of the Staff Regulations, are performed by staff in function group AD from grade AD 5 upwards, it was right that the vacancy notice provided that officials applying for the post in question should be in one of the grades AD 5 to AD 14 and that the successful candidate would be appointed in his existing grade.

In those circumstances, it was entirely legitimate for the vacancy notice to provide that the recruitment of a temporary agent would be at grade AD 5 whilst providing that an EU official in one of the grades AD 5 to AD 14 would be appointed in his existing grade, and the principle of equal treatment was not infringed so far as eligibility for EU officials and for staff from the national diplomatic services of the Member States to assume all positions under equivalent conditions and the grading of the successful candidate were concerned.

Supervisory authorities should therefore be able to require insurance and reinsurance undertakings to submit a full list of assets on an item-by-item basis when such information is necessary for them to effectively undertake their supervisory role.

23. Considers the Commission's approach to determining EU decentralised agencies' subsidies from the EU budget to be reliable and to provide the right incentives; stresses that EU agencies' budget allocations are far from being confined to administrative expenditure alone, but instead contribute to achieving the Europe 2020 goals and EU objectives in general, as decided by the legislative authority; reaffirms the need to examine requests for new posts carefully in relation to newly assigned tasks; underlines, however, the importance of adequate funding for those agencies whose tasks have been ...[+++] increased, so as not to hinder their performance; calls for a specific approach in respect of the recruitment of specialised scientific staff with professional experience, especially when these posts are financed exclusively by fees and are thus budget-neutral for the EU budget; supports the work carried out by the interinstitutional working group on the future of agencies, which was set up in early 2009, and looks forward to its conclusions, notably on the above mentioned points;

38. Notes that there has been no progress in the negotiations for the purchase of the WIC and SDM buildings in Strasbourg; expects that, should negotiations be resumed, the final package agreed upon should give value for money to the Institution; decides, pending the outcome of these negotiations, not to enter EUR 50 000 000 under Item 2003, and to transfer this amount to a building reserve to be created under Title 10 (Chapter 10 5 -Provisional appropriation for buildings); decides, consequently, to delete Item 2009 (“provisional appropriation to cover the institution’s property investments”); the fund put in reserve will be release ...[+++]d once a set of conditions to be formulated has been satisfied; requests that the criteria for the release of the reserve be agreed with the relevant committee; expects that by 1st September the Bureau will come back with concrete proposals on this matter;