92001E2677

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2677/01

by Raffaele Costa (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(2 October 2001)

Subject: Remuneration of EIB employees

What was the total amount, inclusive of all costs and charges, which the EIB paid out to its employees in 2000? Furthermore, exactly how many persons did the EIB have in its employ on 31 December 2000?

Answer given by Mr Solbes Mira on behalf of the Commission

(20 November 2001)

The Commission can confirm that the European Investment Bank (EIB) employed 1 033 persons at 31 December 2000.

In the financial year 2000, as stated in the Bank's Annual Report(1), EIB expenditure on staff, including the eight members of the Management Committee, totalled 137,435 million. Of that amount, 69 % or 94,924 million related to remuneration, the balance of 42,511 million being allocated to social expenditure. Unlike other Union institutions, the EIB is directly responsible for expenditure on health insurance, pensions, the crèche and child-minding facilities, as well as subsidies for staff catering services.

As regards the remuneration arrangements for EIB staff and a comparison with the remuneration of officials and other staff of the Communities, the Honourable Member is referred to the answer given by the Commission to his Written Question P-0486/00(2).

(1) Published on the EIB's website in all the Community languages: http://www.eib.org/report00/pdf/pdf.htm.

(2) OJ C 303 E, 24.10.2000.