Traduction de «Bureau du Contrôleur général du Canada » (Français → Anglais) :

Mr. Charles-Antoine St-Jean (Comptroller General, Comptroller General's Office, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)

58. Notes that, according to the European Parliamentary Assistants Association, the Court of Auditors, the Parliament's own Financial Controller and Mr Onesta, the Vice-President responsible for the Statute for Assistants, the new rules on the payment of the secretarial allowance which entered into effect on 1 January 2001 still pose a number of problems, both in terms of ensuring compliance with the Financial Regulation and with relevant national legislation (taxation, social security and so on), and also in terms of user-friendliness; welcomes, therefore, the changes to the rules governing the payment of the secretarial allowance adopt ...[+++]ed by the Bureau on 9 February 2004; calls on the Secretary-General to ensure that the new rules are strictly enforced; considers, however, that the new requirement that, in the case of service contracts, invoices or fee statements should be accompanied by statements certifying that the staff concerned are duly affiliated to a social security scheme and that tax and social security contributions are duly paid should not be limited to contracts with a duration exceeding six months;

14. Recalls that following the Bureau's decision of 10 December 2001, with effect from 1 January 2002, under Parliament's Internal Rules the Committee on Budgetary Control is simply informed of withholdings of approval (WOA) by the Financial Controller; notes that of the four WOA's during 2002 three were overruled by the President pursuant to Article 21 of the Internal Rules; expresses concern at the circumstances of WOA n° 02/02 concerning the regularisation of telephone bills charged to the Bonn information office over the period ...[+++]1992-1998; asks its Secretary-General to consider whether the case merits an administrative inquiry and to inform its competent committee of his conclusions;

13. Recalls that following the Bureau's decision of 10 December 2001, with effect from 1 January 2002 under Parliament's Internal Rules the Committee on Budgetary Control is simply informed of withholdings of approval (WOA) by the Financial Controller; notes that of the four WOA's during 2002 three were overruled by the President pursuant to Article 21 of the Internal Rules; expresses concern at the circumstances of WOA n° 02/02 concerning the regularisation of telephone bills charged to the Bonn information office over the period 1 ...[+++]992-1998; asks its Secretary-General to consider whether the case merits an administrative inquiry and to inform its competent committee of his conclusions;

The Commission is confident that the Nicaraguan authorities will take account of the considerations voiced by the European Union and other members of the international community and that the measures taken against the Bureau of the Comptroller-General and the comptroller himself will be reversed.

69. Recalls that on 10 April and 6 July 2000 the Bureau adopted amendments to Article 14 of the Rules on Members' expenses and allowances for entry into force on 1 January 2001; points out that in the course of its audit work the Court of Auditors expressed the view that Parliament's Administration and the Financial Controller should review the new arrangements and report on compliance with the Financial Regulation by the end of 2001; asks the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Committee on Budgetary Control by 1 July 2002; ...[+++]