Traduction de «Statut général des fonctionnaires de l'Etat » (Français → Anglais) :

More particularly, the State’s contribution to the VRS would compensate only partially for the additional costs caused by two main types of structural disadvantages which are due to the legacy of OTE as a state-owned monopoly: (a) the permanent quasi-civil-servant status of OTE employees, guaranteed by law, and (b) the higher salaries (also imposed by law) which significantly increase the overall costs of the scheme.

It is composed of personnel seconded from the Member States acting in an international capacity, in accordance with the rules applicable to national experts and military staff on secondment to the General Secretariat of the Council, as well as officials from within the General Secretariat of the Council and officials seconded from the Commission.

The Council, subject to parliamentary scrutiny reservations by certain delegations, agreed on a general approach to the proposal for a Council Directive on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugees status.

The Commission has furthermore proposed to maintain the mechanism which links annual pay evolution to the average purchasing power evolution in Member States' civil services ("the Method") and to integrate it into the Staff Regulations.

The Council approved a "Statement on the DAS" which is reproduced in Annex II. FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD: COMMISSION WORK PROGRAMME FOR 1996 - CONCLUSIONS "THE COUNCIL - welcomes the programme for the fight against fraud submitted by the Commission for 1996; - recalls the Madrid European Council's conclusions of 15 and 16 December 1995 on fraud and the protection of the financial interests of the Communities and in particular the European Council's invitation to the Member States and Institutions to adopt "the necessary measures to ensure an equivalent level of protection throughout the Community and in the Community bud ...[+++]get and the EDF as a whole"; - notes that the Commission programme comes within the context of these conclusions and of those of the ECOFIN Council of 27 November 1995 and that it also takes account of certain remarks made by the Council in connection with the 1995 work programme; - supports the general guidelines of the specific measures envisaged by the Commission under the four headings identified when the anti-fraud strategy was presented in 1994, i.e.: = as regards a stronger presence on the ground and firmer support for operational activities: improved inspections in third countries, in particular in the CCEEs and the Mediterranean countries, increased prevention of irregularities in the field of transit, extension, whilst observing the respective powers of national administrations, of the SCENT mutual assistance network to sectors other than the customs sector; = as regards strengthening the partnership between the Commission and the Member States: the development of information networks, better use of the results of risk analysis, the training of officials in the Member States; examination, as part of the programme for Sound and Efficient Financial Management (SEM 2000), of the possibility of extending the system of disallowing finance from agriculture to other areas, in accordance with the Madrid European Council's conclusions; = as regards ...

The various statutes governing Crown corporations either assign the power to hire an auditor to the Ministry, or specifically name the Auditor General.