3. Emphasises the fact that the financial implications of the European elections and the turnover of Members and their assistants during the changeover between legislative terms ar
e of an exceptional nature and recognises the efforts already made to accomm
odate those one-off costs within the budget; regrets that those additional costs must be borne in one single budget year and asks the Secretary General to identify a way of ensuring that those costs are spread over the lifetime of the parliamentary term in future; believes, however
...[+++], that further efforts must be made to implement further changes, savings and structural reforms, including using the possibilities of the Financial Regulation, with the ambition of keeping the budget increase closer to the rate of inflation;