24. Endorses the efforts made by its Bureau and its Administration to modernise Parliament's IT landscape and to prepare it for enlargement; endorses the further enhancement of interinstitutional cooperation in the
area of information technology; remains concerned, however, at the fact that IT expenditure in
Parliament remains relatively high, especially if compared with other European institutions; requests its Secretary-General to present a report by 1 September 2003 on a multi-annual plan on all envisaged IT expenditure; has de
...[+++]cided to place an amount of EUR 5 million entered against Item 2100 ("Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and software, and related work") in the reserve, pending the examination of the report;