Translation of "Personalaufstockung" in English

One of the things I appreciate is your call for an increase in human resources.

The extra staff will be funded by a transfer from the budget of the GNSS programmes.

Maintenance of current staff, and growth in staff numbers, is foreseen.

The modification in the governance structure by the GNSS Regulation implies an increase of staff.

To meet this goal, increase in staffing level is required already starting with 2013.

Managed services are more cost-effective and more scalable than staff augmentation.

Moreover, the Cabinet also decided to increase personnel within the framework of German bilateral engagement to establish a police force.

Due to this increase in staff, the expected growth of the company is to be secured and sustained high.

Secondly, the Commission must be prepared to increase human resources in the area of economic affairs once the economic governance package has been adopted.

The preliminary draft budget therefore had to postpone the question of possible new staff and its pre-allocation until the margins which will possibly become available under the new institutional agreement have become clear and until the new Commission has had a chance to define its requirements.

This new line is to allow additional activities to be incorporated into the agencies' work programme, as long as doing so does not involve increases in staffing or capital expenditure beyond the limits of existing budgets.

In this context, and in view of the previous experience of financial delegation, the decentralization proposed to us is unacceptable, as is the increase in the staff of the delegations called for by the Court of Auditors.

I welcome in this respect that Prime Minister Jospin yesterday also announced a substantial strengthening of controls on the food chain including a big increase in staff.

These proposals have been drawn up on the basis of an assessment of the current situation and take account of the obstacles which hinder progress in this field and discuss, in particular, the reform of the Commission' s services: greater competences for delegations and an increase in human resources devoted to development policy, the allocation of financial resources in accordance with the objectives of Community development policy, the simplification of administrative procedures and - of course - the complementarity and coherence of the Union' s development policies.

However, to avoid having to ask for yet more staff we have decided to approve initiatives only if they can be carried out by internally redeploying our existing staff or simply by terminating some activities that are being conducted.

We together decided, Mr Garriga and I, to follow a strategy in which we tried to find as many funds as possible under expenditure heading five so that we might return many of the savings agreed by the Council and so be able to meet the desire for staff increases as a result of enlargement, staffing reform and changes to financial management.

In response to the Commission, a series of measures have been referred to which would prevent this taking place this year or next, and Mr Salafranca himself refers to another issue, which is the need for extra personnel in the Directorate-General for Latin America.

OHCHR will allocate more resources and staffing to our New York office, beginning with the early deployment of more staff charged with responsibility for work in the areas of rule of law, mainstreaming, the Millennium Development Goals, action 2, and peace and security.

Depending on individual weaknesses, specific measures include the creation or reinforcement of administrative and supervisory bodies and monitoring systems, including through budget and staff increases; the training of inspectors and other staff, including at regional and local level, as well as training for the private sector.

Depending on the specific needs of each country, concrete measures include the adoption of outstanding legislation; the establishment or reinforcement of institutions, including through budget and staff increases; the creation of inter-ministerial working groups; the upgrading of data-collection and IT systems; the training of officials, experts and social partners; and the establishment of information centres and other awareness- raising activities.

Dame Jocelyn Barrow asked whether, following the abolition of Protocol 16, there would be a surplus in staff.

In view of the Commission’s commitment not to request any new posts between 2009 and 201316, such a rise in staff numbers seems unrealistic.

It is assumed that this increased will be maintained in 2017 and 2018 since ESMA will have new supervisory tasks for trade repositories for SFTs.

Specific measures include the adoption of outstanding legislation; the designation or reinforcement of relevant structures, including through reorganisation and budget and staff increases; the creation of co-ordination, arbitration and monitoring mechanisms; the preparation and implementation of human resources development plans; training; and the development of databases of projects eligible for future co-financing.

Mr Malosse would have preferred it if the considerations relating to points such as "follow-up of opinions" and "increasing staff to support consultative work" had been highlighted better.

Even though there was a 34% increase of staff during this period, the total amount of waste has increased only by 20% (= 7 328 tonnes in 2008 for the whole Commission).

With regard to administrative expenditure, both the EP delegation and the Council agreed that requests for new staff by the European Commission, which already had presented a first amending letter and announced a further one for September, would be examined in the autumn.