EU Agentschap Databeveiliging krijgt jaarbudget van 1,27 miljard euro (en)
The European Commission today accepted the proposal for an amending budget to the 2004 budget to install the recently appointed European Data-protection Supervisor. With start-up capital of EUR 1.272 million, the Supervisor and his authority can start their work as soon as Parliament and the Council approve the amending budget. The Supervisor is a European institution in its own right.
Budget Commissioner Michaele Schreyer comments: "This successfully completes the three-year process of setting up this important European office; the new institution of European Data-protection Supervisor can now start its operations under the direction of Mr Peter Johan HUSTINX. I therefore hope that the Council and Parliament will quickly approve the proposal."
On 1 July 2002 the Council, Parliament and the Commission adopted Decision No 1247/2002/EC on the regulations and general conditions governing the performance of the European Data-protection Supervisor's duties.(1) On this basis, the Council and Parliament approved the appointment of Peter Johan HUSTINX as European Data-protection Supervisor and Joaquín BAYO DELGADO as his assistant on 22 December 2003. These appointments were published on 17 January 2004.
This amending budget contains a total of EUR 1 272 000 in expenditure and EUR 90 000 in revenue. It proposes the creation of 15 posts.
Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data provides for the establishment of an independent supervisory authority to monitor the application and implementation of the provisions of this Regulation in the institutions.
The draft budget for 2004 already contained the necessary structure for the Supervisor's budget, but the appropriations could not be fixed before the end of the negotiations as the European Data-protection Supervisor and his assistant had still not been appointed.
As the appointments have now been made, the Commission proposes the entry of the appropriations and establishment plan approved by the budgetary authority in the 2002 budget.
If necessary, the Supervisor himself could present another amending budget in the course of 2004 to adjust the appropriations and establishment plan to the body's needs.
The administrative section of the 2004 budget left a sufficient margin below the ceiling in the financial perspective to allow the entry of the Supervisor's budget.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/application_en.htm
(1) ;OJ L 183, 12/7/2002, p.1.