One of the prime Commission objectives in undertaking Administrative Reform was to ensure that the Institution could deal with any major shift in its priorities or its workload flexibly and effectively, whilst ensuring that administrative spending remains within the ceiling set by the 1999 Financial Perspectives. Clearly, the forthcoming enlargement, with increases of some 20% in EU population, 66% in EU Member States and 82% in EU official languages, presents such a challenge. The Commission has introduced a wide range of measures to ensure that its working methods can
cope with the extra workload through amongst other things better pla
...[+++]nning and programming, more flexible financial management arrangements and more rigorous financial control systems (see Reform Implementation Review and Report presented by Vice-President Neil Kinnock on 30 January 2003, IP/03/133). The Council and Parliament are currently discussing the modification of the Staff Regulation which governs the careers of EU officials and other staff, and the Council intends to agree on the new legislation by the end of June 2003. The Commission is confident that the full and timely implementation of all reform measures will lead to savings in administrative expenditure from base line of over € one billion over the first fifteen years.Le Conseil et le Parlement examinent actuellement la modification du règlement du statut, qui régit les carrières des fonctionnaires et autres personnels de l'UE, et le Conseil se propose de parvenir à un accord sur la nouvelle législation d'ici la fin juin 2003. La Commission est convaincue que la mise en œuvre en temps voulu et dan
s leur intégralité de l'ensemble des mesures de réforme permettra de réaliser des économies au niveau des dépenses administratives par rapport au niveau de référence de plus d'un milliard d'euros au cours des 15 premières années. Cela signifie que, grâce à la réforme, l'élargissement pourra être mené à bien e
...[+++]n respectant les plafonds fixés pour les dépenses administratives dans la perspective financière, ce qui eût été impossible sans la réforme.
