Thus, it is to our dismay that the report, which was initially well drafted, has been made less effective by the irrelevant and unwelcome additions of paragraphs pre-empting the outcome of the negotiations on the financial supervisory architecture, calling for a common consolidated corporate tax base and attacking the right of enterprises to employ contract staff.

Secondly I should also highlight the importance of the figures for the establishment plan, as our fellow Member has just mentioned, whether for temporary staff, contract workers, seconded national experts, etc., so that we as the budgetary authority have a clear picture of the development of the human resources budgets of the agencies.

In Annex I your rapporteur has compiled a table showing which programmes are administered by the EA in question and what percentage of operational funds are used for the operation of the EA, and giving a breakdown of the staff of each EA into officials, contract staff, and temporary staff (on the basis of a document of May 2007 supplied to Parliament by the Commission).

Third, it is important that there is effective oversight of the implementation tasks carried out by agencies, executive agencies and other ad hoc bodies, which all employ a higher proportion of staff on fixed term contracts than the Commission itself.

Staff financed by Art A3 01 02 (auxiliary, END, contract staff, etc.) (specify budget line) | 0,045 | 0,045 | 0,045 | 0,045 | 0,045 | 0,045 | 0,045 |

4. Confirms its ongoing commitment to support the administrative reform of the Commission, in respect of which the Commission's Letter of Amendment 1/2001 to the 2001 preliminary draft general budget and the Council's Letter of Amendment 1/2001 to the 2001 draft general budget represent a step forward; therefore welcomes the budgetary decision to agree to create 500 new posts and provide additional appropriations in the administrative part of the 2001 budget for infrastructure related to contractual staff, which is financed from the BA lines, and for information technology in the delegations; and underlines the need to create an early ...[+++]retirement scheme in order to support the reform process;