By way of exception from the second subparagraph, the Commission may, during the last two months of the financial year, autonomously transfer appropriations concerning expenditure on staff, external staff and other agents from one title to another within the total limit of 5 % of the appropriations for the year.

79. Is deeply concerned about the fact that, in general, the Commission's outsourcing tendencies, together with the conversion of posts into appropriations for contract agents, have led to a situation where an increasing number of staff employed by the EU are neither visible in the institutions’ establishment plans as adopted by the budgetary authority nor paid under heading 5; is therefore of the opinion that changes in Commission staff numbers should be considered on the basis of not only establishment plan posts but also other staff, including executive and decentralised agency staff where the tasks of those staff have been transferred from the Commission; considers that, although it generates savings on pay, the conversion of establishment plan p ...[+++]osts into external staff is likely to have an impact on the quality and independence of the European civil service;

79. Is deeply concerned about the fact that, in general, the Commission's outsourcing tendencies, together with the conversion of posts into appropriations for contract agents, have led to a situation where an increasing number of staff employed by the EU are neither visible in the institutions’ establishment plans as adopted by the budgetary authority nor paid under heading 5; is therefore of the opinion that changes in Commission staff numbers should be considered on the basis of not only establishment plan posts but also other staff, including executive and decentralised agency staff where the tasks of those staff have been transferred from the Commission; considers that, although it generates savings on pay, the conversion of establishment plan p ...[+++]osts into external staff is likely to have an impact on the quality and independence of the European civil service;

78. Is deeply concerned about the fact that, in general, the Commission's outsourcing tendencies, together with the conversion of posts into appropriations for contract agents, have led to a situation where an increasing number of staff employed by the EU are neither visible in the institutions' establishment plans as adopted by the budgetary authority nor paid under heading 5; is therefore of the opinion that changes in Commission staff numbers should be considered on the basis of not only establishment plan posts but also other staff, including executive and decentralised agency staff where the tasks of those staff have been transferred from the Commission; considers that, although it generates savings on pay, the conversion of establishment plan p ...[+++]osts into external staff is likely to have an impact on the quality and independence of the European civil service;

This shall comprise Management and Support Expenditure of Policy Area Statistics (Expenditure related to staff in active employment, External Staff and other management expenditure, Buildings and related expenditure and Support expenditure for operations) and the Financial Interventions in respect of the Production of Statistical Information.

27. Reiterates its concern in relation to security both on and around its premises; invites the competent authorities to further improve the current security arrangements, by introducing new technologies and professional skills; invites its Secretary-General to examine how the security arrangements concerning access to its garages need to be improved, for instance by means of scanning devices; regards it as more effective to concentrate security checks on visitors and external personnel and facilitate the access of its own staff; believes, therefore, that a special effort should be made to facilitate speedier acc ...[+++]ess by staff;