Traduction de «analysis staff capacity » (Anglais → Français) :

The Council: 1. reaffirms the importance of reinforcing coordination in development cooperation between the Community and the Member States as stated in Article 130x of the Treaty on European Union and in accordance with the principle of complementarity of policies set out in Article 130u; 2. notes with interest the initial results of reinforced coordination in the six pilot countries, in particular the progress made in several countries in reciprocal exchange of information between the representatives of the Member States and the Community and the consequent greater transparency of sectoral and regional activities of the Commission and Member States; 3. notes, however, the disparity between one country and another in the functioning of c ...[+++]oordination and observes that the process is hindered by a number of problems relating, inter alia, to lack of staff, links with other coordination bodies and the involvement of beneficiary countries; 4. also emphasizes, in view of the differing economic and social situations in the various countries, the advantages of coherent analysis and exchange of information between the Member States and the Commission; 5. stresses the importance of Community coordination and reiterates the main objectives, which are: to strengthen the capacity of the recipient country to assume responsibility for and ownership of its own development strategies and programmes; to reduce the administrative burden on beneficiary countries with the aim of encouraging strengthened capacity; to increase the effectiveness of development cooperation by the Community and its Member States and providers of funds as a whole; to ensure consistency of the cooperation activities of the Community and its Member States with the common political guidelines adopted by the Council and to ensure complementarity of the various measures within the framework of a single strategy developed by the beneficiary country itself; to optimize the European Union's presence in develo ...

It has to be admitted that after my staff's minute scrutiny of an outside consultant's talks both with the Eurofer firms and with the independents, the capacity reduction effort planned is still not enough -especially considering that our analysis brought out the following : - a large share of the cuts announced in fact represent capacity already closed down ; - another share corresponds to cuts already scheduled, closures which w ...[+++]ould have happened anyway, independently of Commission and government policy ; - yet another share of the closures planned was subject to conditions that could not possibly have been met.

The staff increase will also boost the Fraud Unit s capacity for analysis work, which is essential for effective operations.