Annexes to COM(2021)421 - Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2021)421 - Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism. |
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| document | COM(2021)421  |
| date | May 31, 2024 |
3.2.4.Compatibility with the current multiannual financial framework
◻ The proposal/initiative is compatible the current multiannual financial framework.
✓ The proposal/initiative will entail reprogramming of the relevant heading in the multiannual financial framework.
Explain what reprogramming is required, specifying the budget lines concerned and the corresponding amounts.
A new budget line will need to be created, corresponding to the establishment of a new EU agency. In addition, the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 will need to be programmed so that the required resources are provided for the implementation of this legislation. In particular, as set out above, the proposed additional budget will be financed by a redeployment of a small part the Union contribution (and posts) from the European Banking Authority (EBA), a small redeployment from the allocation for the Single Market Programme (in relation to the cost of hosting the FIU.net IT system) and in the main by a utilisation of the margin under Heading 1.
◻ The proposal/initiative requires application of the flexibility instrument or revision of the multiannual financial framework 70 .
Explain what is required, specifying the headings and budget lines concerned and the corresponding amounts.
3.2.5.Third-party contributions
◻ The proposal/initiative does not provide for co-financing by third parties.
✓ The proposal/initiative provides for the co-financing estimated below:
EUR million (to three decimal places)
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | Total 2021 – 2027 | |
| Fees from directly supervised entities and fee/levies for indirect supervision of financial institutions 71 | 36.179 | 39.302 | 75.481 | |||
| TOTAL appropriations co-financed | 36.179 | 39.302 | 75.481 |
Estimated impact on revenue
✓ The proposal/initiative has no financial impact on revenue.
◻ The proposal/initiative has the following financial impact:
◻ on own resources
◻ on other revenue
◻ please indicate, if the revenue is assigned to expenditure lines
EUR million (to three decimal places)
| Budget revenue line: | Appropriations available for the current financial year | Impact of the proposal/initiative 72 | ||||||
| Year N | Year N+1 | Year N+2 | Year N+3 | Enter as many years as necessary to show the duration of the impact (see point 1.6) | ||||
| Article …………. |
For miscellaneous ‘assigned’ revenue, specify the budget expenditure line(s) affected.
Specify the method for calculating the impact on revenue.
ANNEX - ASSUMPTIONS
1. General Assumptions
The AML Authority
Title I – Staff Expenditure
The following specific assumptions have been applied in the calculation of the staff expenditure based upon the identified staffing needs explained below:
·The date of legal establishment of the Authority will be immediately upon entry into force of this Regulation (probably early in 2023), but in 2023 the Authority will not carry out any operational tasks only administrative ones associated with its setting up. Staff recruited in 2023 (18 headcount) will be exclusively administrative and HR staff.
·Direct supervision of all selected entities will begin in 2026, therefore a full complement of the 100 staff for direct supervision will have to be in place by the end of 2025.
·By the middle of year 2025, the process of selection of entities for direct supervision, and determination of fees/levies, will be completed (the list of entities subject to fees/levies will be larger than those subject to direct supervision). From 2026 onwards, the Authority would be majority funded by fees/levies.
·Regarding operational activities other than direct supervision, the Authority will start to exercise its functions in 2024, and grow to full staffing over a three year period, with full staffing foreseen to be reached being reached by the end of 2026. Staff recruited during 2026 will work on indirect supervision of the non-financial sector and FIU support. 2027 will therefore be the first year in which the Authority is fully staffed over a full year.
·Newly hired staff in 2023 2024 2025 and 2026 are costed for 6 months given the assumed time needed to recruit the additional staff, however 20 new staff taking up post at the beginning of 2024 are costed for a full 12 months as the recruitment procedure would be conducted in 2023 ;
·The average annual cost for 2021 of a Temporary Agent is EUR 152 000, of a Contract Agent is EUR 82 000 and for a seconded national expert is EUR 86 000, all of which including EUR 25 000 of ‘habillage’ costs under Title II (Buildings, IT, etc.) and these figures have been indexed at 2% per annum from 2023 on so that the Legislative Financial Statement can be presented in current prices;
·No positive or negative correction coefficient is applied, since the seat of the Authority is unknown (it is conventional for a Commission proposal for the establishment of a new agency to be blank as regards the location of the seat);
·Employer’s pension contributions for Temporary Agents and Contract Agents have been based upon the standard basic salaries included in the standard average annual costs for 2021, i.e. EUR 96 724 and EUR 54 200 respectively, again indexed at 2% per annum from 2023 on to arrive at current prices.
Title II – Infrastructure and operating expenditure
Costs are based upon multiplying the number of staff by the proportion of the year employed by the standard cost for ‘habillage’, i.e. EUR 25 000 plus EUR 2 500 per staff member 73 to cover other administrative expenses, both amounts in 2021 prices and indexed to arrive at current prices.
However, during year 1 of effective operations (2024) office space sufficiently large for the full staffing of the Agency will need to be hired. Therefore in addition to the standard habillage calculation (EUR 25,000 multiplied by 82.5 staff FTEs) an additional EUR 2 million (in current prices) has been budgeted to allow for rental and potential building fit-out costs.
The Commission
Based on recent experience of setting up of new agencies, a fixed-duration Task Force of 12 persons (8 AD officials and 4 Contract Agents) will be needed for 2023 and 2024 in order to efficiently and rapidly set up the Authority, including an interim Executive Director seconded from the Commission, and a team of specialists in HR, IT, finance and procurement. These persons will be provided by redeployment internally within the European Commission. Some of the staff in the Task Force (four in this estimate) will need to be contract staff, due to the short-term nature of the Task Force. Missions will be required, especially after the Authority starts operations in its place of seat from 2024. The staff for this taskforce has been costed at the average for 2021 of EUR 152 000 per staff member for an Official (a rate that includes building and IT costs, so-called ‘habillage’) and EUR 82 000 for a Contract Agent.
2. Specific information
Staffing levels
The total staffing level for the Authority when fully resourced, as stated in Annex 5 of the impact assessment accompanying this proposal, is planned as 250, of which 100 staff engaged in direct supervision of certain Obliged Entities. However, if the Authority is located near to an existing EU Agency with which it can share support functions, then the total staffing level could be somewhat less than 250; if that is the case, this LFS should be amended during the legislative process.
The number of 100 staff engaged in direct supervision is based on an estimated number of entities under direct supervision by the Authority in the range of 12 to 20 and an average number of Authority staff working on each directly supervised entity in the range of 5 to 8. Almost all of the 100 staff will be based in Member States, not at the seat of the Authority, as they will be heading Joint Supervisory Teams with participation of staff members of national AML/CFT supervisors.
Regarding the 150 staff not engaged in direct supervision, this number is set at the minimum level needed to carry out the full range of tasks of the Authority. It is significantly under the average 2020 staffing level of the three ESAs. The 150 planned non-direct supervision staff of the Authority can be broken down into the following activities:
·Executive Board members, Executive Director and Chairperson (7 FTE);
·Central administration and support staff (budget, procurement, HR, IT legal etc.);
–Indirect supervision (coordination and oversight of national supervisors) in the financial sector;
–Indirect supervision (coordination and oversight of national supervisors) in the non-financial sector;
·Coordination and support to the work of FIUs.
The draft regulation establishing the Authority lays down the number of Executive Board members as 5, plus the Chair; they will not be permanent staff members of the Authority but independent full time public office holders. Based on experience at the ESAs, the number of necessary central administration and support staff can be estimated as 20 (less if support services are shared with another Agency). The exact allocation of the remaining 123 across the other activities will be entrusted to the Authority itself, but it is estimated that about 70 FTE will work on indirect supervision of the financial sector (this is relevant for fees/levies – see below).
Title III costs – operating expenditure
Costs are estimated subject to the following general assumptions:
·Translation costs at full operation are estimated as just over €0.5 million per year in 2021 prices and indexed to arrive at current prices. The rates assumed for 2024 and 2025 are assumed to be 50% and 75% thereof respectively;
·Transitional IT costs include: the one-off IT costs of transferring IT systems to AMLA and other IT start-up costs for AMLA assumed to be EUR 1 million in 2023 and EUR 400 000 in 2024 (both in 2021 prices).
·On-site supervision costs are EUR 2 500 per person per visit. The mission budget of €2 million (in 2021 prices) at full operation (i.e. from 2027 on) accounts for 800 individual missions (the mission budget for 2024 being 50% of that at full operation and 75% of full operation in 2025).
·Litigation expenses relate to the use of external counsel for litigation with directly supervised entities regarding decisions addressed to them, with entities subject to fees/levies regarding the level of fees/levies, and with national supervisors in cases where the Authority finds them to be deficient in supervision of an entity and proposes transfer of supervisory competence to the Authority. The annual litigation expense is estimated at €0.75 million at full operation (in 2021 prices).
The Authority will take over from EBA the AML database which EBA was mandated to produce by Regulation EU 2019/2175 (ESA review Regulation), referred to in article 9a of the EBA Regulation (see point 1.5.5. in the LFS), which first granted AML competences to EBA, together with the 8 posts allocated to EBA for AML in that legislation. The amount foreseen for EBA in the LFS of the Commission proposal granting those additional powers to EBA (COM(2018) 646 final), was €0.53 million per year from the Union budget on an ongoing basis (40% of the total cost, due to the mixed funding nature of the ESAs). This funding (appropriately indexed) would be transferred to the AML Authority.
The AML Authority will take also over from the Commission the hosting of the information exchange system for FIUs known as FIU.net. The hosting of this network is being transferred from Europol to the Commission in the course of 2021, but Commission hosting is envisaged as being temporary until the Authority can take over as permanent host. The cost of hosting FIU.net, independently of the transfer-related costs, consists essentially of IT costs (maintenance of secure hardware and software for cross-border exchange of sensitive information between FIUs). The annual cost of hosting FIU.net while in the Commission is approximately €2 million, but this is a conservative estimation to only secure a safe system for the moment. The Authority will need to develop additional functionalities to provide effective tools to exchange information between FIUs and the budget estimated for the FIU.net system here is therefore €3 million (in 2021 prices), of which about €2 million (in current prices) will correspond to a saving on the EU budget due to the transfer of FIU.net from the Commission to AMLA as from mid-2025 (the first year when the transfer of FIU.net from the Commission to the Authority is realistically possible).
Fee/levy revenue
The activities of the Authority to be funded by fee/levy revenue are costs related to direct supervision and indirect supervision of the financial sector. Regarding Title I and Title II, the total FTE staff numbers at full operation engaged in these two activities is estimated as 192. Regarding Title III, the costs which are considered to fall into this category are all Title III costs with the exclusion of the operation of FIU.net and 20% of costs for translation, missions and litigation. For a full year at full operation, these costs amount to €4.9 million out of €9 million on Title III (both amounts in current prices). Overall these estimations give fee revenue of approximately €40 million in a year of full operation, corresponding to approximately 75% of expenses of the Authority, leaving just over €13.3 million of expenses to the Union budget.
In years 1 and 2 of effective operations (2024 and 2025) zero fee/levy revenue is planned, as the Authority will not yet be in a position to levy fees/impose levies; the selection of entities subject to fees/levies will take up the first year and a half of activity of the Authority, the list of entities being published in August 2025 and invoices for ex-ante contributions for 2026 sent out immediately thereafter. The overall effect of these assumptions is that the cost of the Authority to the Union budget (excluding the cost of the temporary Commission taskforce that would need to be established to set-up the Authority) is of the order of just over €1 million in 2023, just under €16 million in 2024, and €30 million in 2025, then falling to €12.8 million in 2026 and just over €13 million in 2027 and thereafter.
Fees/levies corresponding to eligible expenditure in year N will be collected in year N-1 based on the draft budget for year N. If the estimated expenditure on direct supervision in a certain year is higher or lower than budgeted, the fees/levies levied in the following year should be adapted to correct for this.
Regarding the Obliged Entities subject to fees/levies, the draft regulation establishing the Authority excludes non-financial sector Obliged Entities, and limits fees/levies to a selection of financial sector entities, to be determined in a Commission delegated act.
The table below summarises the planned evolution of fee/levy revenue for the Authority.
| EU Anti Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) – Fee & Levy Funding | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | TOTAL 2023 – 2027 | ||
| Title 1: (including employer’s pension contributions) | Commitments | (1) | 26.033 | 28.573 | 54.606 | ||
| Payments | (2) | 26.033 | 28.573 | 54.606 | |||
| Title 2: | Commitments | (1a) | 5.343 | 5.830 | 11.173 | ||
| Payments | (2a) | 5.343 | 5.830 | 11.173 | |||
| Title 3: | Commitments | (3a) | 4.803 | 4.899 | 9.702 | ||
| Payments | (3b) | 4.803 | 4.899 | 9.702 | |||
| TOTAL Fee & Levy funded appropriations for AMLA | Commitments | =1+1a +3a | 36.179 | 39.302 | 75.481 | ||
| Payments | =2+2a +3b | 36.179 | 39.302 | 75.481 |
(1) Europol, ‘From suspicion to action: Converting financial intelligence into greater operational impact’, 2017.
(2) Communication from the Commission - Towards better implementation of the EU's anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism framework (COM/2019/360 final), Report from the Commission on the assessment of recent alleged money laundering cases involving EU credit institutions, (COM/2019/373 final), and other reports.
(3) COM(2020) 605 final.
(4) Communication from the Commission on an Action Plan for a comprehensive Union policy on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing 2020/C 164/06; C/2020/2800; OJ C 164, 13.5.2020, p. 21–33: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52020XC0513(03) .
(5) European Parliament resolution of 10 July 2020 on a comprehensive Union policy on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing – the Commission’s Action Plan and other recent developments (2020/2686(RSP)), P9_TA(2020)0204; https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2020-0204_EN.html .
(6) https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-12608-2020-INIT/en/pdf .
(7) The scope of supervision for the EU AML/CFT supervisor should focus, at this stage, on: credit institutions, payment institutions, bureau de change, E money institutions, virtual asset service providers covered by FATF recommendations, amongst others, with the option of assessing an expansion of supervision to other risky obliged entities in the future, but also considering the more homogeneous nature of the financial sector and the high level of harmonisation with regard to prudential requirements compared with the non-financial sector. The EU risk-based supervision should take the following parameter into account: the risk arising from the nature of the obliged entity’s business – in particular its customer base, products, delivery channels, geographical exposure, and taking into account cross border aspects; emerging risks associated with the evolving distribution methods, especially the challenges to AML/CFT posed by the digitalisation of financial services as well as the consequences if these risks materialised.
(8) For further detail see the accompanying impact assessment. [OP please insert the link to SWD(2021)190]
(9) EBA/Rep/2020/06, available at https://eba.europa.eu/file/744071/download?token=Tf9XDqWX .
(10) Not publicly available.
(11) ECA special report ‘EU efforts to fight money laundering in the banking sector are fragmented and implementation is insufficient’: https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR21_13/SR_AML_EN.pdf .
(12) For further detail see the accompanying impact assessment [OP please insert the link to SWD(2021)190]
(13) Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, amended by Directive (EU) 2018/843 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 43-74).
(14) Regulation (EU) 2015/847 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on information accompanying transfers of funds and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1781/2006 (Text with EEA relevance), (OJ L 141, 5.6.2015, p. 1-18).
(15) Directives (EU) 2015/2366, (EU) 2014/92, and (EU) 2009/110.
(16) Directive (EU) 2019/1153.
(17) Case C-217/04 United Kingdom v Parliament and Council EU:C:2006:279, paragraph 44, and Case C-270/12 United Kingdom v Parliament and Council EU:C:2014:18, paragraph 104.
(18) https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/190724-anti-money-laundering-terrorism-financing-communication_en .
(19) Granted to EBA by Regulation EU 2019/2175 (ESA review regulation).
(20) Directive (EU) 2018/843 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 amending Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing.
(21) Commission Staff Working Document SWD(2021)190 - Impact Assessment Report Accompanying the package of Commission legislative proposals regarding Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT), and law enforcement, including: Draft Regulation on AML/CFT, also amending the existing Transfer of Funds Regulation (Regulation 2015/847); Draft amendment of Directive 2015/849 on AML/CFT; Draft Regulation creating an EU Authority for AML/CFT, in the form of a regulatory agency; Draft amendment of Directive 2019/1153 facilitating the use of financial and other information for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of certain criminal offences.
(22) See accompanying Impact Assessment [OP please insert the link to SWD(2021)190]
(23) For further reflections on the FIU support and coordination mechanism please see the accompanying Impact Assessment [OP please insert the link to SWD(2021)190]
(24) Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data.
(25) This database was created by Regulation EU 2019/2175 (ESA review regulation) which at the same time extended the competence of EBA in the area of AML/CFT.
(26) FIU.net has been hosted by Europol since 2016, but is due to be transferred to the Commission on a temporary basis before September 2021, pending the creation of the Authority. This follows a decision of the European Data Protection Supervisor from December 2019 according to which the hosting of FIU.net by Europol goes beyond the mandate of the latter in terms of processing of personal data.
(27) This database was created by Regulation EU 2019/2175 (ESA review regulation) which at the same time extended the competence of EBA in the area of AML/CFT.
(28) FIU.net has been hosted by Europol since 2016, but is due to be transferred to the Commission on a temporary basis before September 2021, pending the creation of the Authority. This follows a decision of the European Data Protection Supervisor from December 2019 according to which the hosting of FIU.net by Europol goes beyond the mandate of the latter in terms of processing of personal data.
(29) https://europa.eu/european-union/sites/europaeu/files/docs/body/joint_statement_and_common_approach_2012_en.pdf.
(30) OJ C , , p. .
(31) [add reference] OJ C , , p. .
(32) https://europa.eu/european-union/sites/default/files/docs/body/joint_statement_and_common_approach_2012_en.pdf .
(33) Regulation (EU) 2021/240 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 February 2021 establishing a Technical Support Instrument (OJ L 57, 18.2.2021, p. 1).
(34) Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (‘the EPPO’) (OJ L 283, 31.10.2017, p. 1).
(35) Regulation (EU, EURATOM) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 September 2013 concerning investigations conducted by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (Euratom) No 1073/1999 (OJ L 248, 18.9.2013, p. 1).
(36) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/715 of 18 December 2018 on the framework financial regulation for the bodies set up under the TFEU and Euratom Treaty and referred to in Article 70 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 122, 10.5.2019, p. 1).
(37) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52013JC0001 .
(38) Regulation No 31 (EEC), 11 (EAEC) laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (OJ P 045 14.6.1962, p. 1385).
(39) Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43).
(40) Council Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community ( OJ 17, 6.10.1958, p. 385).
(41) Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).
(42) Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1).
(43) Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 of 15 October 2013 conferring specific tasks on the European Central Bank concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions (OJ L 287, 29.10.2013, p. 63).
(44) Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms and amending Council Directive 82/891/EEC, and Directives 2001/24/EC, 2002/47/EC, 2004/25/EC, 2005/56/EC, 2007/36/EC, 2011/35/EU, 2012/30/EU and 2013/36/EU, and Regulations (EU) No 1093/2010 and (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 173, 12.6.2014, p. 190).
(45) Directive 2014/49/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on deposit guarantee schemes (OJ L 173, 12.6.2014, p. 149).
(46) Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority), amending Decision No 716/2009/EC and repealing Commission Decision 2009/78/EC (OJ L 331, 15.12.2010, p. 12).
(47) Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority), amending Decision No 716/2009/EC and repealing Commission Decision 2009/79/EC (OJ L 331, 15.12.2010, p. 48).
(48) Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Securities and Markets Authority), amending Decision No 716/2009/EC and repealing Commission Decision 2009/77/EC (OJ L 331, 15.12.2010, p. 84).
(49) Regulation (EU) 2015/847 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on information accompanying transfers of funds and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1781/2006 (OJ L 141, 5.6.2015, p. 1).
(50) Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (OJ L 176, 27.6.2013, p. 1)
(51) Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings, amending Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC (OJ L 182, 29.6.2013, p. 19).
(52) Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 (OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1).
(53) Council Regulation (EU) 2016/300 of 29 February 2016 determining the emoluments of EU high-level public office holders (OJ L 58, 4.3.2016, p. 1).
(54) Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/444 of 13 March 2015 on the security rules for protecting EU classified information (OJ L 72, 17.3.2015, p. 53).
(55) Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/443 of 13 March 2015 on Security in the Commission (OJ L 72, 17.3.2015, p. 41)
(56) Council Regulation (EC) No 2965/94 of 28 November 1994 setting up a Translation Centre for bodies of the European Union (OJ L 314, 7.12.1994, p. 1).
(57) As referred to in Article 58(2)(a) or (b) of the Financial Regulation.
(58) Details of management modes and references to the Financial Regulation may be found on the BudgWeb site: https://myintracomm.ec.europa.eu/budgweb/EN/man/budgmanag/Pages/budgmanag.aspx .
(59) Diff. = Differentiated appropriations / Non-diff. = Non-differentiated appropriations.
(60) EFTA: European Free Trade Association.
(61) Candidate countries and, where applicable, potential candidates from the Western Balkans.
(62) Approximation for 2023 and 2024 given the different bases (indicated above) required to be applied for heading 1 and heading 7 expenditure.
(63) Outputs are products and services to be supplied (e.g.: number of student exchanges financed, number of km of roads built, etc.).
(64) As described in point 1.4.2. ‘Specific objective(s)…’
(65) From 2026 onwards, 192 of the total 250 posts (i.e. 77%) will be funded from fees/charges, of which 164 Temporary Agents (141 ADS and 23 ASTs), 25 Contract Agents and 3 Seconded National Experts
(66) Total at foreseen full staffing.
(67) AC = Contract Staff; AL = Local Staff; END = Seconded National Expert; INT = agency staff; JPD = Junior Professionals in Delegations.
(68) Sub-ceiling for external staff covered by operational appropriations (former ‘BA’ lines).
(69) Mainly for the EU Cohesion Policy Funds, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF).
(70) See Articles 12 and 13 of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2093/2020 of 17 December 2020 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027.
(71) Full cost of the staff (including associated title II costs and pension contributions) and the operational costs resulting from direct supervision activities and indirect supervision of financial institutions.
(72) As regards traditional own resources (customs duties, sugar levies), the amounts indicated must be net amounts, i.e. gross amounts after deduction of 20 % for collection costs.
(73) In their budgets for 2021 the Title II costs of the ESAs excluding buildings and ICT vary from EUR 1 700 to nearly EUR 5 000 per employee.