1 Amendments of Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY related to 2012/2016(BUD)
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Is however worriedNotes that for the first time the Commission cut the budgetary requests of almost all agencies, which were in line with Financial programming amounts overall, including of those agencies which belong to Parliament's priorities, for a total amount of some EUR 44 million; willrecalls that a carefully analyseis of the methodology, rationale and possible impact of such cuts is necessary with regard to several resolutions, the most recent being the 2010 discharge, which stress that the current review of the agencies by the IWG should lead to structural improvements in both the impact and cost-efficiency of the agencies, including by identifying areas of duplication and overlap amongst existing agencies; Underlines once more that EU agencies‘ budget allocations are far from consisting in administrative expenditure alone, but instead contribute to achieving the Europe 2020 goals and EU objectives in general, as decided by the legislative authority;