92003E0015

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0015/03

by Christopher Huhne (ELDR) to the Commission

(20 January 2003)

Subject: Employees of the Commission

Will the Commission please give figures for the total numbers of employees in post for each of the last five years (including 2002 if available), together with the total wage bill and average paid per employee?

Will the Commission also give figures for the number of employees of the Commission as a percentage of total employees of the Commission, Council and Parliament together, and as a percentage of total employees of all EU Institutions?

Answer given by Mr Kinnock on behalf of the Commission

(3 April 2003)

1. The table below shows the total number of employees of the Commission, the total wage bill (total payments charged against the various budget lines including all associated costs and contributions) and the average paid per employee. Figures are only readily available for the last four years.

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2. Since the Commission does not have access to the figures for numbers of employees of the other Institutions, the Honourable Member will find below the proportion of posts in the Commission's establishment plan compared to the total number of posts in the establishment plans of all the institutions. The establishment plan only includes officials and temporary agents' posts.

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Commission: all budgets (Administration, Research and Technological Development, Office for Official Publications, OLAF, European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions)

Institutions: Commission, Parliament and European Ombudsman, Council, Court of Justice, Court of Auditors, Economic and Social Committee and Committee of the Regions and Joint organisational structure.