Traduction de «Programme de gestion des vacances de poste » (Français → Anglais) :

( Posts currently allocated to the management of the programme to be replaced or extended

2. Takes note of the comment of the Court of Auditors that the Agency could improve its budgetary and recruitment planning, notably as regards transfers between titles, the high vacancy rate (21 %) and the high volume of appropriations carried forward; calls on the Agency to take all necessary steps to improve the situation;

Evaluation activities will take place on an ongoing basis, comprising at programme level ex ante, mid-term, and ex post evaluation, as well as other evaluation activity considered useful for improving programme management and impact.

III. “League table”: introduce a suitable management information system to allow a qualitative and quantitative assessment to be established and thereby share best-practice across the Commission; notes that a statistical breakdown, by Directorate-General, was not available for the 2 805 commitment proposals, payments and recovery orders, rejected in 1999 by the Financial Controller and Accounting Officer, on a number of grounds including errors due to incorrect draft contracts, ineligible expenditure, ineligible beneficiaries, insufficient consideration of economy and value for money as well as duplicate payments; calls for a comparis ...[+++]on of Directorates-General on a number of management criteria including: payment delays, 'reste à liquider', recoveries initiated and completed, actual to planned execution, hours of training, average time of vacancy of posts and action following financial audits, performance evaluations, allegations of malpractice by whistleblowers and reports by the Anti-Fraud Office;

The interim reports at OP level should be prepared before the 2003 summer break, so that management authorities can submit requests for amendments for the end of 2003.

Thus, the ex-ante evaluation is the responsibility of the competent authorities in the Member States, the mid-term evaluation must be carried out by the authority managing the programme in collaboration with the Commission before 31 December 2003, and the ex-post evaluation is the responsibility of the Commission, in collaboration with the Member State and the managing authority.