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COM(2019) 600 — EN 5.7.2019 EN

DRAFT General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020

VOLUME 4 SECTION IV

COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

DOCUMENTS

All amounts in this budget document are expressed in euro unless otherwise indicated.

Any revenue provided for in Article 21(2) and (3) of the Financial Regulation, entered in Titles 5 and 6 of the statement of revenue, may lead to additional appropriations being entered on the headings which bore the initial expenditure giving rise to the corresponding revenue.

Figures for outturn refer to all authorised appropriations, including budget appropriations, additional appropriations and earmarked revenue.

EUROPEAN UNION

DRAFT General budget

of the European Union for the financial year 2020

VOLUME 4

SECTION IV


EN 5.7.2019 Draft general budget 2020 IV/1

BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR 2020

I. INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this introduction is to recall the background to this new budgetary year in the light of developments in the activities of the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘the Court’ or ‘the Institution’) and to identify the budget guidelines which mark the 2020 budget estimates.

Following this introductory Chapter, Chapter II (‘Detailed analysis of the current operating expenditure of the 2020 budget estimates’), describes precisely and in detail the various factors on which the budgetary requests submitted by the Institution for its operating budget are based; Chapter III sets out the requests in the context of the implementation of the final phase of the reform of the European Union’s judicial structure, and Chapter IV proposes technical amendments to the structure of the budget.

1. Trends in the judicial activity

It is of fundamental importance to bear in mind that, unlike the other EU institutions, which are able to control their workload or to set negative priorities, and unlike other supreme or higher courts, the judicial bodies of the Court are for their part unable to control the flow of incoming cases. It is, nevertheless, their task to do all they can to remain capable of dealing with those cases with the high level of quality required and within a satisfactory period of time.

The Court’s Annual Report for 2018, directly accessible on the Institution’s website (curia.europa.eu/jcms/AnnualReport), gives an account of the judicial activities of the Court of Justice and the General Court in 2018.

The Annual Report also contains all the statistics needed to assess the number of cases brought before the courts, the number of cases completed and the duration of proceedings before the two courts which make up the Institution.

An analysis of those statistics reveals that the past year was marked by very intense activity in the two courts. The overall number of cases brought before them in 2018 (1 683 cases) was higher than in 2017 (1 656). The number of cases completed in 2018 increased very considerably (1 769 cases, compared with 1 594 in 2017, approximately + 11 %).

In particular, the Court of Justice saw a record number of cases brought in 2018 (849 cases, compared with 739 in 2017, which had in turn represented a record year in terms of the number of cases brought before that court). Just as in 2017, requests for a preliminary ruling represent the largest category of cases brought in 2018 (568). As regards completed cases, in 2018 the Court of Justice disposed of the highest number of cases in its history (760, compared with 699 in 2017). The statistics for the General Court in 2018, the second full year of implementation of its new judicial structure after the reform, show the positive results of the General Court’s reinforcement, with a record number of 1 009 cases disposed of (compared with 895 in 2017), representing an increase of almost 13 %. The number of cases brought, for its part, is lower than the previous year (834 compared with 917 in 2017), which has enabled the number of cases pending to be substantially reduced (– 175 cases, or a reduction of almost 12 %).

As regards the average duration of proceedings, this increased somewhat at the General Court (20 months compared with 16,3 months in 2017), due in particular to the fact that a number of competition cases were disposed of in 2018, the volume and complexity of which were very considerable.

As regards the Court of Justice, the average duration of references for a preliminary ruling remained stable compared with 2017 (16 months, compared with 15,7 months in 2017). By contrast, 2018 was marked by a reduction both in the average duration of direct actions (18,8 months, compared with 20,3 months in 2017) and of appeals (13,4 months, compared with 17,1 months in 2017).

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The Court continues to work relentlessly to ensure quality justice which is efficient and transparent. As regards quality, one of the features which confirms the efforts made in that regard is the continued increase in 2018 of the number of cases disposed of by formations of both the Court of Justice and General Court in extended composition: 80 cases were completed by the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice (compared with 46 in 2017) and 87 by five- judge Chambers at the General Court (compared with 18 in 2017).

As shown in the table below, the trends in judicial activity over the period 2012-2018 are clear confirmation of the distinct upward trend, which, moreover, bears testimony to the confidence placed by national courts and tribunals and by litigants in the Courts of the European Union.

2012 2018 Variation 2012-2018 (%)

Cases brought 1 427 1 683 18

Cases completed 1 404 1 769 26

The even greater rise in the number of cases completed (+ 26 %), deserves to be underlined, because it demonstrates objectively the constant endeavours of the courts, aided by the support services, to improve productivity, endeavours detailed in Section 2.

For the years 2019 and 2020, the Institution must probably expect a subsequent increase in the number of cases brought, in line with the general tendency which may be readily discerned in the figures indicated above.

As regards more specifically the Court of Justice, a further increase in the number of requests for a preliminary ruling seems probable, in the light of the general upward trend in such requests in recent years. In addition, the activity of the Court of Justice cannot fail to be affected by the changes in the nature of litigation and productivity of the General Court, in particular because of the increased number of appeals, given that in 2018, 27 % of the General Court’s decisions were the subject of an appeal.

2. Initiatives taken to improve efficiency

In addition to the legislative decisions adopted to deal with the increase in its judicial activity, the Court has for several years explored, at the level of the courts and at the level of support services, all avenues that might enable it best to pursue the prime objectives of quality and speed in the handling of cases.

Accordingly, and for a better understanding of the challenges to be met and the directions to be followed in 2020, it is important to bear in mind both the reforms of working methods implemented and the extent of the efficiency gains made.

2.1. Initiatives taken by the courts and the registries

The initiatives undertaken by the courts and registries to increase the efficiency of the courts are, inter alia, as follows:

— Improvement of the regulatory framework

The courts’ activity takes place within a very strict framework of rules designed to guarantee the proper administration of justice and equal treatment of all parties, the reform of the Rules of Procedure of the courts (submitted for the approval of the Council) offering a valuable opportunity to enhance efficiency in dealing with cases. In recent years, both courts have recast their rules of procedure.

In addition to the need to adapt the Rules of Procedure to the reality of the actions currently brought before the courts, one of the major objectives of those amendments to the rules is to foster the increased use of the various procedural instruments that allow the handling of certain cases to be accelerated while having due regard to the requirements of a fair hearing.


— Legislative proposals seeking the transfer of jurisdiction from the Court of Justice to the General Court and a mechanism for the prior admission of certain categories of appeal to the Court of Justice

In March 2018, the Court proposed to the EU legislature an amendment of its Statute seeking to transfer to the General Court certain infringement proceedings, at present dealt with exclusively by the Court of Justice, and to put in place, at the Court of Justice, a mechanism for the prior admission of certain categories of appeal. Given the state of the discussions relating to the second part of that request, which are well advanced, that mechanism for the prior admission of certain appeals should be introduced in the course of 2019. That development will enable the increase in the number of cases having to be dealt with by the Court of Justice to be contained to a certain extent.

As regards the proposal to transfer certain infringement proceedings to the General Court, it must be pointed out that the proposal has had to be withdrawn because of the reservations expressed by the European Commission and some Member States at this stage.

— Working methods and tools of the courts and the registries

The increasing number of cases brought also necessitates some measures of organisation, inter alia:

(a) changes made with a view to streamlining work within the courts, in relation, for example, to the composition of the courts’ Chambers or rules for the allocation of cases;

(b) measures linked to the definition of objectives and monitoring of cases, aided in particular by more efficient IT tools;

(c) substantial progress in the digitalisation of flows of documents inherent in the activity of the courts, the digitalisation of flows of documents upstream of the judicial decisions having been the first priority. The e-Curia application constitutes crucial progress in the exchange of documents with parties, without which the registries of the courts could not have coped with the challenge of the considerable growth in the number of cases brought. In 2018, more than 4 800 access accounts were opened and all Member States have made use of the application; the percentage of documents lodged by means of e-Curia reached 81 %, as compared with 38 % in 2012. In addition, as from 1 December 2018, e-Curia has become the only means of exchange of legal documents between parties’ representatives and the General Court. At the same time, digitalisation of flows of documents downstream of judicial decisions, associated with the dissemination of the case-law of the Court, was achieved by the replacement of the old paper reports with electronic case-law reports.

2.2. Initiatives taken at the level of support services ( 1 )

In the context of the very substantial growth in judicial activity, it is of fundamental importance to increase or, at the very least, maintain the work capacity of the cabinets and the services very directly associated with judicial work. For that reason, it is important to organise as efficiently as possible the so-called horizontal services ( 2 ). The relative size of those services has thus fallen from 16,5 % of all staff in 2007 to only 14,3 % at the end of 2018.

The following two initiatives to increase the support services’ efficiency may be underlined:

— Reorganisation of the services

The year 2018 was marked, internally, by a reorganisation of the Institution’s services, which seeks, in a restrictive budgetary context and an environment marked by a constant increase in workload and a rapid development of technologies, to create significant synergies and attune the services even more closely to the needs of the judicial activity.


( 1 ) Support services include all the services of the Court with the exception of the judges’ cabinets and the registries. ( 2 ) The horizontal services include the personnel, finance, IT, logistics, buildings, protocol and communications services.

Specifically, the Institution’s administrative structure is refocused around three Directorates-General — instead of four — namely, a Directorate-General of Administration, a Directorate-General for Multilingualism and a Directorate- General for Information, whereas the Research and Documentation Directorate has been brought under the direct oversight of the Registrar.

— Strict management of the requirements of full multilingualism

The Court’s rules on the use of languages are notable for the fact that every one of the official languages of the European Union can be the language of a case ( 3 ). The Court is required to observe the principle of multilingualism in full in order to communicate with the parties in the language of the case and to ensure that the case-law is disseminated in every one of the Member States.

Such requirements, together with the growth in the volume of litigation, readily explain why the objective of greater efficiency in the area of languages has for a long time been an absolute priority, above all in order to avoid a bottleneck that will delay the handling of cases by the courts.

That is why, so far as translation is concerned, numerous measures, leading to savings, have been taken by the courts, such as, inter alia, selective publication of the case-law; summarising of requests for a preliminary ruling; reduction in the length of Opinions of Advocates General and publication by extracts of certain particularly long decisions. Without those measures, the number of pages to be translated in 2018 (which was 1,28 million pages, that is an increase of 15 % compared with 2017) would have exceeded 1,8 million pages. The result is accordingly a substantial saving in lawyer-linguist posts, the creation of which would otherwise have been essential.

At the same time, and with regard still to translation, the provision of ever more efficient IT tools plays a fundamental role, especially in the areas of pre-treatment of documents and of computer-assisted translation (software used by the language services of the EU institutions). Further, reinforcing the management of terminology work also makes it possible for research to be centralised and made financially viable for the purpose of furthering its systematic use.

Those endeavours together, combined with a more intensive recourse to outsourcing, are proving to be very fruitful, since in 2018 a 6,8 % increase in the output of pages translated was recorded compared with 2017.

3. The budget guidelines in the 2020 budget estimates

As in previous years, the Institution’s budget has been drawn up with the aim of taking account of the recommendations of budgetary rigour issued both by the budgetary authority ( 4 ), and by the Commission ( 5 ).

The Court has drawn up its 2020 budget estimates taking into account the following requirements:

— application of the assumptions made with respect to the adjustment of remunerations communicated by the Commission (see Section 1.2 of Chapter II), and the application of the provisions of the Staff Regulations of the European Union (in particular concerning advancements in step and promotion). Those two aspects constitute the primary factor in the change of expenditure in Title 1 relating to the Members and to staff (EUR 12,05 million), that is 2,81 % of the total 2019 budget;

— a rigorous approach as regards the requests for the creation of new posts: this explains why the requests for the creation and upgrading of posts in the Institution’s services and in the cabinets of the Judges of the Court of Justice, submitted by the Court, are targeted requests designed to enable the Institution to ensure the proper working of its judicial activity (see points 2.1 and 2.2 of Chapter II). Those requests result in a EUR 2,5 million increase in the budget, namely 0,58 % of the total 2019 budget;


( 3 ) No court, either national or international, is required to conduct its procedures in as many different languages. ( 4 ) See conclusions of the Council of 12 February 2019 on the budget guidelines for 2020. ( 5 ) Letter from Mr Oettinger, member of the European Commission, sent to the various institutions, dated 21 January 2019.

— freezing of non-salary expenditure, as requested by the Commission: the Court has exceeded that request by reducing that type of expenditure, which is not without difficulty given that a large part of that expenditure is subject to contract indexing, which must necessarily be offset by reductions in other expenditure in order to comply with the freezing at the nominal level of the 2019 budget. Non-salary current operating expenditure shows an overall reduction of EUR 1,98 million, or – 0,46 % of the total 2019 budget.

In 2020, the Court must also meet extraordinary expenditure linked to finalising the implementation of the reform of the European Union’s judicial structure.

After the first and second phases of the reform of the European Union’s judicial structure resulting from Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2015/2422 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 amending Protocol No 3 on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union (OJ L 341, 24.12.2015, p. 14), which led to the appointment of 18 additional judges to the General Court ( 6 ), the final phase of the reform will take place during the partial renewal of the General Court in September 2019. The number of General Court judges will then be increased by eight additional judges, which will bring their total number to 54 judges, that is two judges per Member State ( 7 ).

2020 will be the first year for which the budgetary impact of the additional judges at the General Court will be extended over 12 months, given that in 2019 that court will have a full membership of 54 judges only for the period from September to December (four months). The additional costs to be considered in that regard in 2020 amount to EUR 0,72 million, that is an increase equal to 0,17 % of the total 2019 budget.

4. Summary of changes in appropriations in the 2020 budget estimates

The table below summarises the variations in appropriations in the Court’s budget estimates for 2020 compared with its 2019 budget and details the effect on the budget of the requests relating to current operating expenditure and extraordinary expenditure.

Budget estimates 2020

(in EUR)

Total amount of the 2019 budget 429 468 936 (%)

Variation in current operating expenditure 10 388 564 + 2,42

Expenditure linked to Members (excluding Brexit) – 812 000 – 0,19

Brexit (- three Members) – 324 750 – 0,08

Expenditure on salaries (staff) 13 504 125 + 3,15

Expenditure not related to salaries (excluding Brexit) – 1 978 811 – 0,46

Variation in extraordinary expenditure in 2020 720 000 + 0,17

Reform of the General Court (+ eight Judges for 12 months, compared with four months in 2019)

720 000 + 0,17

Total variation 11 108 564 2,59

Total amount of the 2020 budget 440 577 500


( 6 ) The procedure which will lead to the appointment of the final judge in the context of the first phase of the reform is still underway.

( 7 ) Regulation 2015/2422 provided, under the third phase of the reform, for the arrival of nine additional judges at the General Court. However, in accordance with the indications given by the Commissioner in charge of the Budget in his letters to the Presidents of the Institutions of 21 December 2017 and 21 January 2019, and given that one of the nine additional judges provided for in that phase was to be a British national, it was decided that only eight additional judges will finally take up their duties in September 2019.

II. DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT OPERATING EXPENDITURE IN THE 2020 BUDGET ESTIMATES

1. Assumptions for 2020

The expenditure estimates have been made taking account of the guidelines sent by the Commission to the other institutions on 6 December 2018 so that the budget estimates for 2020 may be presented on the basis of co-ordinated, harmonised procedures.

1.1. General price levels

The Commission estimates, by way of guidance, that the general level of prices in Luxembourg will rise by an average of about 1,8 % in 2020.

1.2. Level of adjustment of remunerations (appropriations in Chapters 1 0, 1 2 and 1 4)

The assumed rates of adjustment to remunerations proposed by the Commission come to + 3,1 % per annum for the 2019 year of adjustment (12 months’ effect on the budget for 2020), and to + 2,5 % per annum for the 2020 year of adjustment (6 months’ effect on the budget for 2020).

2. Analysis of the requests seeking changes in the establishment plan

Notwithstanding the need to maintain a policy of budgetary rigour also as regards posts, as advocated by the Council and the Commission, the Court is obliged to submit certain very targeted requests for the creation and upgrading of posts, in the Institution’s services and the cabinets of the Judges of the Court of Justice.

Those requests will be examined in turn in points 2.1 and 2.2 below.

2.1. Reinforcements within the Institution’s services

The Court requests the creation of 16 new permanent posts. That request must be analysed in the light of the following three essential factors:

(a) Large-scale structural changes without reinforcement of the services

As regards the reform of the European Union’s judicial structure approved in December 2015 which, in September 2019, will double the number of judges at the General Court, the Court decided, when submitting its reform proposals to the legislative authority, to request only posts for the cabinets of the Judges and the Registry of the General Court, notifying the legislative authority that a subsequent request would be sent to the budgetary authority in order to strengthen the support services for judicial, linguistic and horizontal activities.

(b) Removal of 5 % of posts during the period 2013-2017 (6,5 % for the Registry of the Court of Justice and the services)

The Court achieved in the 2013-2017 period the objective imposed on it of reducing by 5 % the number of staff in place as at 1 January 2013. Accordingly, a total of 98 posts were removed in that period, care being taken to maintain the resources allocated to the judges’cabinets, which necessarily required cuts on the Registry of the Court of Justice and the services to be more severe (their staff numbers being reduced by 6,5 % over that period), and in particular a substantial amputation from translation resources.

(c) The scale of the efficiency gains achieved and the limits reached

The scale of the efficiency gains achieved over recent years has enabled a 26 % increase in the number of cases completed over the period 2012-2018, notwithstanding the reduction in the staff of the services during that period. However, those efficiency gains have now reached their limits and the workload, which has increased by 18 % in terms of the new cases brought during the period 2012-2018, makes it impossible for the Institution’s services to continue their operations without jeopardising their proper functioning.


The new posts requested for the services are as follows:

Registry of the Court of Justice (one permanent AD 7 post)

This request is justified in a context marked by a considerable increase in the workload of the service, whose staff is responsible for ensuring the rigorous follow-up of the procedural aspects of cases (15 % increase in the cases brought before the Court of Justice between 2017 and 2018). In that regard, it is important to point out that the very large increase in the Court of Justice’s workload in recent years has not been accompanied by any increase in the Registry’s staff.

Research and Documentation Directorate (seven permanent posts: four AD 5 and three AST 3)

First of all, one AD 5 post and one AST 3 post are necessary for the administration and monitoring of the ‘Judicial Network of the European Union’, which seeks to strengthen cooperation between the Court and the national courts. The staff occupying those posts will also have to work with the Information Technology Directorate in establishing the integrated case-management system, with the Research and Documentation Directorate being called upon to play an especially important role in the discussions on the implementation of that new tool.

Next, three AD 5 posts are necessary in order to carry out work in-house on analysis of the case-law for which outsourcing appropriations of EUR 240 000 had already been provided for in the 2018 and 2019 budgets. In that regard, a tendering procedure was conducted in 2018, but proved unsuccessful because of the very limited number of tenders and excessively high prices.

Lastly, two other AST 3 posts are necessary, in a context of an increased number of cases, in order to have sufficient resources available to ensure legal databases are managed and supplied with data and their users trained, to establish document files and periodic information bulletins on the case-law, and to create a selective index of case-law.

Communications Directorate (one permanent AST 3 post)

The Access to Documents Unit is responsible, on the one hand, for dealing with all requests for access to the documents held by the Institution in the performance of its administrative duties and, on the other, to ensure the management of the Court’s historical archives, both judicial and administrative. The updating of the catalogue and the management of the archives requires specific archiving experience, which is not available within the service. That new post would enable the recruitment of a confirmed archive-management expert.

Directorate for Human Resources and Personnel Administration (three permanent posts: one AD 5, one AST 3 and one AST 1)

The AD 5 post is intended for the Training and Developments Unit. That unit pursues an ambitious programme designed to ensure that the Institution’s staff have the necessary skills to carry out their tasks. Each of the Institution’s services, by developing its staff’s skills, can therefore make optimum use of its capacities. The reduced size of the unit and the number of administrator posts at its disposal, limited to two, currently make it difficult to carry out that programme.

The AST 3 post is intended for the Unit for Rights under the Staff Regulations, Social and Medical Matters and Working Conditions. That post is requested in order to reinforce the medical service staff, stable in terms of size since 2005, and would enable the necessary initiatives to be undertaken in the area of well-being at work and the prevention of psychosocial risks.

The AST 1 post is intended for the Human Resources Unit. The individual occupying that post would provide necessary support to the officials responsible for selection procedures and the management of traineeships, and would contribute to the increased computerisation of the procedures.


Directorate for the Budget and Financial Affairs (one permanent AD 5 post)

That post is intended to reinforce the team responsible for ex ante financial verification, which monitors in a centralised manner not only the financial transactions, but also any human resources file having a financial implication. In 2018, that team, composed of five individuals, monitored approximately 19 000 files. That administrator post has become essential in order to be able to continue to ensure quality verification in good time of the files submitted by all the Institution’s services.

Directorate for Buildings and Security (Three permanent posts: one AD 5 and two AST 3)

In 2020, the Court’s buildings situation will be characterised by two distinguishing factors: first, the third tower will have been brought into service and occupied for several months only and, secondly, a significant proportion of the Court’s buildings complex, stemming from the CJ 4 Project (new Palais, the Anneau, two towers and Gallery) will have been in use for over ten years.

Following the occupation of the third tower, a more extensive buildings area will be in use, involving in particular three high buildings. In that context, the creation of two AST 3 posts proves necessary. One of the AST 3 posts would reinforce the team responsible for monitoring the contract for the operation and maintenance of the technical facilities, on the one hand, and would also be tasked with assisting with the monitoring of the files for the operation, maintenance and servicing of the Court’s buildings, on the other. The second AST 3 post would reinforce the team responsible for monitoring the contracts for the installation of the additional technical equipment.

As regards the monitoring of the older buildings essential to prevent deterioration of the buildings and accidents which would give rise to civil liability on the part of the European Union, the creation of an AD 5 post is necessary. The individual occupying that post would be tasked with developing the architectural maintenance policy (structure and finishings) for the Institution’s entire buildings portfolio and, more particularly, for the older buildings.

The budgetary impact of the above-mentioned request for the creation of 16 permanent posts for the services, during a six-month period in 2020, is EUR 747 000.

2.2. Upgrading of posts

2.2.1. Upgrading of permanent posts in connection with the promotion policy

Article 6(2) of the Staff Regulations guarantees that, for each institution, the posts vacant in every grade on 1 January of the budget year are sufficient to permit the promotion of officials in line with the percentages fixed by the Staff Regulations (see Annex 1, Section B and Article 9 of Annex XIII) for every grade, those percentages being applied to the number of officials in the lower grade in active employment on 1 January of the preceding year.

For the implementation of that provision of the Staff Regulations, the following upgradings should be made:

15 AD 13 to AD 14, 15 AD 12 to AD 13, 27 AD 10 to AD 11, 14 AD 9 to AD 10, 41 AD 8 to AD 9, 1 AST 8 to AST 9, 17 AST 6 to AST 7, 30 AST 5 to AST 6 and 27 AST 4 to AST 5.

The effect on the budget of those upgradings is EUR 1 037 000.

It is pointed out that the abovementioned provisions of the Staff Regulations guarantee a level of availability of posts but do not in any way require the corresponding promotions to be made. Promotion may be given only to those officials with sufficient merit.

2.2.2. Upgrading of permanent posts in the services

The Court intends to pursue further in 2020 its efforts aimed at redeployment and increased efficiency and requests a number of conversions of permanent posts for its services.


The upgradings requested to this end in the 2020 budget come to a total of 10 and relate to the following services:

— Court of Justice Registry: upgrading of one AST 3 post into one AD 5 post in order to deal with the development of the regulatory and operational context in which the Courts of the European Union must perform their duties in consequence of the application of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 on the protection of personal data. That regulation, read in the light of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, requires the Courts to pay increased attention to the protection of personal data and, in order to do so, to take the necessary measures both in the internal processing of the documents containing such data and as regards the dissemination or making public of such documents. In that context and having regard to the experience required to carry out those activities, it has become essential to convert one AST 3 post into an AD 5 post;

— General Court Registry: upgrading of three AD 5 posts to three AD 7 posts. At the present time, this service must adapt to an increase in the volume and complexity of its workload, in particular in the area of litigation (large number of unprecedented procedural situations, management of confidentiality). Accordingly, it has become essential to recruit experienced individuals possessing proven abilities to manage and motivate a team of assistants. In order to be able to recruit that highly-qualified staff, it is necessary to convert three AD 5 posts into AD 7 posts;

— Library Directorate: upgrading of three AST 3 posts to three AD 5 posts. Two of the upgradings requested are linked to the specific services and products which the service must provide in-house, which requires certain expertise (review of reviews, updates on the legal literature, production of a review of the legal literature, bibliographic guides in the major new areas of litigation and in the area of the handling of important cases). The third upgrading of an AST 3 post to an AD 5 post is directed at administrative and budgetary coordination, and the follow-up of other horizontal files of the directorate and the application of the internal control standards;

— Directorate for the Budget and Financial Affairs: upgrading of three AST 3 posts to three AD 5 posts, justified by the inherent difficulty of certain tasks performed within the directorate which, notwithstanding the excellent skills of those responsible, calls for the involvement of more qualified staff. Two upgradings are requested within the unit ‘Financial assistance, budget and verification’. The first upgrading is intended for the ex ante verification team, given that the tasks which it performs (centralised verification of the financial transactions and prior verification of the files fixing the entitlements of staff at the Institution having a financial impact) require a very sound knowledge of the financial rules and of the practices of the Institution, as well as an ability to interpret complex legal texts (legislation and contracts). The second upgrading is intended for the ‘Public procurement’ team. In that area, most of the activities require administrator-level skills, in particular as regards assistance and advice in the preparation of procurement documents (contract notice, contract documents, draft contracts). The third and final upgrading requested for that directorate is intended for Accounting and budgetary management system unit. In that regard, the analyses and design of new solutions in the field of cost and financial accounting require not only professional expertise but also a capacity for analysis and project management which in general exceed the competencies expected as a matter of course from the person occupying a post in the AST function group.

The budgetary impact of all those 10 upgradings amounts to EUR 189 000.

2.2.3. Upgrading of temporary posts in the cabinets of the Judges of the Court of Justice

In the context of the large increase in the number of cases before the Court of Justice and their increased complexity, a request must be made to upgrade the temporary posts of legal administrator in the cabinets of the Court of Justice, currently at grade AD 7.

The legal administrator posts in the cabinets of the Court of Justice had been created with a view to reinforcing those cabinets with young lawyers who could assist the Judges and Legal Secretaries with the tasks of preparing the files and legal research. In the light of the development in the workload referred to above, those posts should be upgraded so that the cabinets of the Judges at the Court of Justice now comprise four Legal Secretaries instead of three Legal Secretaries and one legal administrator.


Accordingly, it is requested that 27 temporary AD 7 posts be upgraded to the following: six AD 9 posts, six AD 10 posts, 10 AD 11 posts and five AD 12 posts.

The budgetary impact of those upgradings is estimated at EUR 1 562 000.

3. Analysis of variations in appropriations in the 2020 budget estimates (excluding reform of the General Court)

3.1. Preliminary observations and summary table of variations in appropriations

In general terms, in 2020 78 % of the appropriations linked to operating expenditure are allocated to expenditure in Title 1 ‘Persons working with the institution’ (EUR 342,7 million) and 22 % to expenditure in Title 2 ‘Buildings, furniture, equipment and miscellaneous operating expenditure’ (EUR 94,9 million).

The total estimated revenue in 2020, for the part relating to the current budget, amounts to EUR 58,2 million as against EUR 55,9 million in 2019.

The following table sets out the development in current operating expenditure (excluding expenditure linked to reform of the General Court), between 2019 and 2020.

Table summarising the 2020 budget estimates –— current operating (excluding reform of the General Court)

Budget titles and chapters

Budget 2019 Budget 2020 Total variation in appropriations

Current Current (EUR) (%)

1 0 — Members of the institution 35 592 750 34 500 000 – 1 092 750 – 3,07

1 2 — Officials and temporary staff 261 182 875 274 348 000 13 165 125 5,04

1 4-1 6 — Other staff-related expenditure 32 030 500 33 814 500 1 784 000 5,57

Total in Title 1 328 806 125 342 662 500 13 856 375 4,21

2 0 — Buildings and associated costs 64 895 311 65 280 000 384 689 0,59

2 1 — Article 2 1 0 — IT 23 406 000 23 500 000 94 000 0,40

2 1-2 3-2 5-2 7 — Other expenditure 10 036 500 6 090 000 – 3 946 500 – 39,32

Total in Title 2 98 337 811 94 870 000 – 3 467 811 – 3,53

Title 3 — Court’s expenses 59 000 59 000 0 0,00

Title 10 — Other expenditure 0 0 0 0,00

Total of the current operating budget 427 202 936 437 591 500 10 388 564 2,43

3.2. Explanatory notes on expenditure in Title 1

As regards Title 1 ‘Persons working with the institution’, the overall increase in appropriations for current expenditure is EUR 13 856 375, or + 4,21 % compared with the same type of appropriations in the 2019 budget.


3.2.1. Members

The appropriations in Chapter 1 0 are reduced by EUR 1 092 750, or – 3,07 % compared with the current 2019 budget. That variation takes into account the effect on the budget, for 12 months in 2020, of the departure of three Members, on 29 March 2019, further to the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union (one judge and one Advocate General at the Court of Justice and one judge at the General Court). In accordance with the guidelines issued by the Commissioner in charge of Budget and Human Resources at the Commission in his letter to the President of the Court of Justice of 21 January 2019, the impact of Brexit has been taken into consideration in drawing up the 2020 budget estimates, and is set out in the table below.

(in EUR)

Budgetary impact of Brexit 2019 Budget 2020 Budget Difference

(2020 - 2019)

1 0 0 0.0 — Basic salaries – 605 000 – 833 000 – 228 000

1 0 0 0.1 — Residence allowances – 91 000 – 125 000 – 34 000

1 0 0 0.2 — Family allowances – 25 000 – 33 000 – 8 000

1 0 0 0.3 — Entertainment allowances – 17 000 – 23 000 – 6 000

1 0 0 0.4 — Insurance against sickness and accidents and other social security costs

– 11 000 – 15 000 – 4 000

1 0 0 2.0 — Travel expenses (including those of family members) 3 000 0 – 3 000

1 0 0 2.1 — Installation and resettlement allowances 67 000 0 – 67 000

1 0 0 2.2 — Removal expenses 60 000 0 – 60 000

1 0 2 — Temporary allowances 334 000 470 000 136 000

1 0 4 — Missions – 8 250 – 11 000 – 2 750

1 0 6 — Training – 12 000 – 16 000 – 4 000

2 1 6 — Vehicles 0 – 44 000 – 44 000

Total – 305 250 – 630 000 – 324 750

The budgetary savings from the departure of three Members are evaluated at EUR 630 000 in 2020. That amount results from the difference between, first, the savings to be envisaged in terms of emoluments, missions, training, and the leasing and maintenance of vehicles and, secondly, the payment to those Members of the temporary allowances for 12 months in 2020.

As to the remainder, as regards the variations in appropriations in the Chapter 1 0 budget lines, compared with the current 2019 budget, Item 1 0 0 0 ‘Remunerations and allowances’ shows an increase of EUR 404 000, or + 1,37 % compared with the current 2019 budget. In that regard, the increase in remunerations (+ EUR 1 014 000), attributable to the 2019 and 2020 salary adjustment exercises in accordance with the parameters communicated by the Commission, is in part offset by the budgetary savings linked to Brexit and the reduction in the estimate of the expenditure for family allowances of the Members in 2020, effected taking into account the budgetary implementation observed in 2018 for that type of expenditure.


As regards Item 1 0 0 2 ‘Entitlements on entering the service, transfer and leaving the service’, the large reduction in appropriations of EUR 1 115 000 (or – 69,30 %) is due to the absence in 2020 of an ordinary renewal of the composition of the courts, whereas in 2019 the composition of the General Court will be partially renewed at the end of August. Next, contrary to the 2019 budget, there is no need to enter in the 2020 budget appropriations intended to pay the entitlements on leaving the service for the three United Kingdom Members, which also serves to explain the reduction in appropriations observed for that item.

Article 1 0 2 ‘Temporary allowances’ shows a reduction of EUR 346 000, or – 9,27 %, compared with the current 2019 budget, a reduction which is the result of the combination of several factors, in particular the fact that in 2020 there will be no renewal of the composition of the courts and the fact that in the course of 2019 the payment of temporary allowances to certain former Members of the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal who departed the Court in 2016 will come to an end.

Article 1 0 4 ‘Missions’ shows a reduction of EUR 35 750, or – 12,25 %, which is explained in part by the departure of three Members in the context of Brexit, whereas Article 1 0 6 ‘Training’ remains at the same level as in 2019 (EUR 502 000).

3.2.2. Staff

The expenditure in Chapter 1 2 increases by EUR 13 165 125, or + 5,04 % compared with the current 2019 budget, which can be explained by the following factors.

First of all, the appropriations for staff remuneration increase automatically because of the application of provisions of the Staff Regulations (automatic two-yearly advancements in step, upgradings in permanent posts intended for promotions, adjustment of family allowances, travel expenses, …). In total, the increase in appropriations due to the application of those provisions is EUR 2,21 million.

In addition, the salary adjustment parameters notified by the Commission for the 2020 budget lead, in a similar manner to the remuneration of the Members, to an increase in appropriations of EUR 8,45 million within Chapter 1 2.

In total, those two factors, over which the Institution has no control, represent EUR 10,66 million, or 81 % of the increase in appropriations under Chapter 1 2.

There must be added the other variations in appropriations linked to the changes in the establishment plan between 2019 and 2020 (described in detail in Section 2 of the present Chapter II), namely, first, an increase of EUR 0,75 million arising from the request for 16 new permanent posts for the services and, secondly, an increase of EUR 1,75 million in order to carry out 10 targeted upgradings of permanent posts in certain services and 27 upgradings of temporary posts in the cabinets of the Court of Justice.

As a further observation, it must be pointed out that the standard abatement rate has been fixed at 2,5 %, a level that is identical to that of the 2019 budget, the rate of unoccupied posts at the Court continuing to be equally low. That abatement, calculated according to a method harmonised at inter-institutional level, is based on the estimated number of unoccupied and therefore unremunerated posts in 2020. It must be noted that to fix the standard abatement rate at too high a level in comparison with the real rate of occupation of posts in the establishment plan would entail the serious risk that during the year, for want of appropriations, recruitment to posts falling vacant might have to be suspended and the proper operation of the Institution might be handicapped.

3.2.3. Other staff and external services

The appropriations in Chapter 1 4 ‘Other staff and external services’ show an increase of EUR 1 800 500, or + 7,04 % compared with the current 2019 budget (excluding reform of the General Court).


First of all, Item 1 4 0 0 ‘Other staff’ shows an increase of EUR 163 000, as a result of a twofold change: first, a reduction of EUR 113 000, due to the fact that the contract of the special adviser for Brexit-related matters will come to an end during 2019, and secondly, an increase of EUR 276 000 in the appropriations intended to pay contract agents, which is due, in particular, to the application of the salary adjustment parameters communicated by the Commission and the addition of five new contract agents.

Item 1 4 0 4 ‘In-service training and staff exchanges’ shows a slight increase in appropriations of EUR 33 000, or + 2,29 %.

As regards Item 1 4 0 6 ‘External services in the linguistic field’, the appropriations in that line are estimated at EUR 17 303 500, which entails an increase of EUR 1 604 500 (or + 10,22 %), of which 76 % is attributable to the increase in the appropriations intended to fund freelance translation (+ EUR 1 220 000).

To recall, in that regard, that the annual number of pages to be translated in 2018 increased by + 15,3 % compared with 2017, reaching 1,28 million pages. The translation service was able to produce 1,21 million pages in 2018, generating an increase in stock of 70 000 pages to be translated. That deficit of 70 000 pages observed in 2018 should be made good during 2020, an increase in appropriations for freelance translation, therefore, proving necessary. It is important to stress that, without the savings measures put in place by the Court in order to reduce the number of pages to be translated (in particular the selective publication of the case-law and publication by extracts), the translation service’s workload would have exceeded 1,84 million pages in 2018.

For their part, the appropriations required for freelance interpretation, the expenditure for which is estimated at EUR 2 972 000 for 2020, show an increase of EUR 395 500 (or + 15,35 %) compared with the current 2019 budget. That increase is justified, first, by the estimated increase in the average cost of freelance interpreters’ services (EUR 1 116 per day in 2020 compared with EUR 1 094 per day in 2019) and, secondly, by the increase in the forecast number of days to be financed in 2020 (2 663, compared with 2 355 in 2019), following the upward structural tendency observed since 2016 (2 296 days in 2018 compared with 1 598 days in 2016).

One part of the appropriations in that budgetary Item 1 4 0 6 (EUR 319 500 in 2020 compared with EUR 343 000 in 2019 (or – 6,85 %)) concerns the Court’s contribution to the funding of interinstitutional cooperation activities in the field of translation, the importance of which must be stressed with respect to improvements in productivity (development/improvement of translation tools, common terminological database, …). The reduction in those appropriations in 2020 is due to the foreseeable decrease in costs linked to the MT@EC (the European Commission’s machine translation service) project, compared with the budget established for 2019.

Lastly, the appropriations intended for freelance proofreading remain in essence stable compared with the 2019 budget allocation.

3.2.4. Other staff-related expenditure

The variation in appropriations in Chapter 1 6 ‘Other expenditure relating to persons working with the institution’ amounts to – EUR 16 500, that is – 0,26 % compared with 2019.

Item 16 1 0 ‘Miscellaneous expenditure for staff recruitment’ shows a reduction in appropriations of EUR 10 500, or – 5,82 % compared with the current 2019 budget, which is accounted for by the absence of a partial renewal of the courts in 2020.

Item 1 6 1 2 ‘Further training’, shows an increase of EUR 86 000, or + 5,18 % compared with the current 2019 budget, linked in particular to the need to fund new training programmes, including a new programme for training senior and middle management.


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Article 1 6 2 ‘Missions’ shows a reduction in appropriations of EUR 20 000 compared with the current 2019 budget (or – 4,01 %), an adjustment effected having regard to the budget implementation observed during the preceding financial years.

Item 1 6 3 2 ‘Social contacts between members of staff and other welfare expenditure’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 337 000, shows an increase of EUR 28 500 (or + 9,24 %) due to the increase in the amount to be apportioned between the different European institutions based in Luxembourg concerning the activities organised by the Comité d’activités sociales (CAS) (Social Activities Committee in Luxembourg), even though the Court’s contribution is reduced slightly between 2019 and 2020 (from 18,98 % in 2019 to 18,56 % in 2020).

Item 1 6 5 0 ‘Medical service’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 187 000, shows a reduction of EUR 18 000 (or – 8,78 %) compared with the current 2019 budget, which is due to the reallocation in 2020 of the appropriations intended to fund the services of a consultant psychologist to Item 1 4 0 0 ‘Other staff’.

Item 1 6 5 2 ‘Restaurants and canteens’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 192 000, shows an increase of EUR 55 000 (or + 40,15 %) compared with the 2019 current budget, which is due to the need to completely renew the stock of cash registers (14 sales points).

Item 1 6 5 4 ‘Early Childhood Centre’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 3 141 000, shows a reduction of EUR 119 000 (or – 3,65 %) compared with the current 2019 budget, which reflects the estimated expenditure notified by the two managing institutions (the Parliament and the Commission). Almost two thirds of that decrease in appropriations is due to the reduction in the Court’s contribution (22,41 % in 2020 as against 24,18 % in 2019) to the expenditure on crèches managed by the European Parliament in Luxembourg. The remainder corresponds to the expenditure linked to the Early Childhood Centre managed by the Commission, for which a slight reduction in the Court’s contribution may also be observed (18,56 % in 2020 compared with 18,98 % in 2019).

Item 1 6 5 5 ‘PMO (Payment Master Office) expenditure for the administration of matters concerning the Court’s staff’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 113 000, records a reduction of EUR 5 000 (– 4,24 %), in accordance with the forecasts provided by the PMO for 2020.

Lastly, Item 1 6 5 6 ‘European Schools (Type 2)’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 45 000, shows a reduction in appropriations of EUR 13 500, or – 23,08 % compared with the current 2019 budget, due to the reduction in the number of the children of the Institution’s staff attending the type-2 European School in Strasbourg.

3.3. Explanatory notes on expenditure in Title 2

As regards Title 2 ‘Buildings, furniture, equipment and miscellaneous operating expenditure’, the overall reduction in current expenditure (excluding reform of the General Court) is EUR 3 467 811, or – 3,53 % compared with the current 2019 budget.

3.3.1. Buildings and associated costs (Chapter 2 0)

The increase in appropriations for current expenditure within Chapter 2 0 ‘Buildings and associated costs’, in the amount of EUR 384 689, or + 0,59 % compared with the current 2019 budget, is the result of the following variations in the different budget lines of which it is composed:

— Item 2 0 0 0 ‘Rent’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 120 000, shows a considerable reduction of EUR 6 914 000 (– 98,29 %), which is due to the vacation of the last leased building in September 2019. Accordingly, the amount of that budget item includes, in 2020, only appropriations for the leasing of an IT room outside the Court’s buildings complex, which serves as an alternate IT site should the Institution’s primary IT site break down;


— Item 2 0 0 1 ‘Lease/purchase’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 40 076 000, shows an increase of EUR 4 721 689 (or + 13,36 %). The main factors which explain that increase are, first, the need to reimburse the Luxembourg State the residual invoices for the new Palais project (CJ4 Project) following the closure of the bank’s credit lines on 30 June 2017 (+ EUR 1,8 million) and, secondly, the need to pay part of the amounts due in the context of several disputes arising from the development of that CJ4 Project (amounts estimated at EUR 1,8 million for 2020); the increase is also explained by an approximately EUR 3,7 million increase in the budget necessary to fund the lease-purchase payment to be paid for construction of the third tower (CJ9 Project) following the completion of most of the works relating to that project in the course of 2019. In addition, a EUR 1,5 million reduction is envisaged in the appropriations necessary to finance the project to upgrade security measures for the Institution’s buildings infrastructure (CJ10 Project), in consequence of the staggering of that project’s implementation, and savings of approximately EUR 1,3 million are anticipated for the payment of the fees and management and lessor’s expenses for the other buildings projects.

To recall, the appropriations entered in this budget item enable the Court to honour the obligations it has undertaken in connection with three lease-purchase contracts for buildings whose construction/renovation is completed.

The first lease-purchase contract, concluded with the Luxembourg authorities on 15 November 1994, concerns the buildings called Annexes to the Palais (Erasmus, Thomas More and ‘C’ buildings, for a historical value of EUR 148 million, of which EUR 1,33 million remained payable at the end of 2018). To that amount of EUR 148 million there must be added, since June 2013, the cost of the complete renovation of those buildings, which has been entered in the Court’s balance sheet as an asset totalling EUR 80,7 million (excepting financial charges for prefinancing). Accordingly, the amount of the lease-purchase payment for those buildings, lessor’s expenses included, is estimated at EUR 5,5 million in 2020, as against EUR 6,1 million in 2019, in accordance with the contract signed with the Luxembourg authorities which provides for repayment by instalments until 2026.

The second lease-purchase contract, also concluded with the Luxembourg authorities, on 13 June 2007, on the basis of a framework contract signed in 2001, relates to the renovated former Palais and its extension (ring surrounding the Palais, two high towers and a gallery linking the various buildings). The calculation of the lease-purchase payment takes into consideration the building costs, entered in the assets shown in the Institution’s balance-sheet in the sum of EUR 355,3 million (excepting financial charges for pre-financing), since its completion in late 2008. On the information available when these budget estimates were being prepared, the lease-purchase payment required for 2020 will come to EUR 23 million (lessor’s expenses included), as against EUR 23,9 million in 2019, in accordance with the contract signed with the Luxembourg authorities which provides for repayment by instalments until 2026.

The third lease-purchase contract signed with the Luxembourg authorities relates to the project for the fifth extension to the Court’s buildings, namely the construction of a third high tower (an additional 50 000 m 2 — CJ9 project). That project will make it possible for the Court to vacate the last leased building and gather all the staff of the Court on a single site by 1 October 2019 at the latest. The cost is estimated at EUR 152,3 million (excepting financial charges for pre-financing and on the basis of the index for December 2018). The expenditure to be envisaged in 2020 for that lease-purchase contract is in the region of EUR 7,5 million, compared with EUR 3,8 million in 2019, in accordance with the provisions of the contract which provides for repayment by instalments until 2036.

The last project funded with the appropriations of that budget line relates to the works necessary to upgrade security measures for the buildings infrastructure (CJ10 Project). The Court intends to finance those works, estimated in the total amount of EUR 29,1 million, by having recourse to a direct 20-year loan. That loan will be repaid in annual tranches estimated at EUR 1,8 million. That buildings project and its financing by recourse to the direct loan were approved by the budgetary authority at the end of 2018;


— Item 2 0 0 7 ‘Fitting-out of premises’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 2 427 000, shows a notable increase of EUR 1 198 000 (or + 97,48 %) compared with the current 2019 budget. That additional expenditure is due principally, first, to the need to ensure that the third tower is correctly incorporated within the rest of the Institution’s buildings complex, with a series of specific fitting-out works, and, secondly, to other fitting-out work to be envisaged in 2020 (partitioning works, renewal of the Thomas More building’s roof and works to improve access to the Institution’s buildings of persons with reduced mobility);

— Item 2 0 0 8 ‘Studies and technical assistance in connection with building projects’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 1 662 000, shows an increase of EUR 154 000 (+ 10,21 %) compared with the current 2019 budget. That increase is due, first, to the increase in the appropriations relating to the follow-up of the CJ 10 Project by an external consultant (+ EUR 54 000) and, secondly, the costs relating to the contract concerning ‘health and safety coordination’ (expenditure estimated at EUR 100 000 in 2020);

— Article 2 0 2 ‘Costs relating to buildings’, which covers, inter alia, expenditure on cleaning/maintenance (Item 2 0 2 2), energy (Item 2 0 2 4) and security/surveillance (Item 2 0 2 6), shows an increase in appropriations of EUR 1 225 000 (or + 6,20 %) compared with the current 2019 budget.

As regards expenditure on cleaning/maintenance, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 9 987 000, this shows an increase of EUR 947 000, or + 10,48 %. That increase is due in particular, first, to the entry into force of a new technical maintenance contract, more onerous than initially envisaged when the 2019 draft budget was being prepared (+ EUR 642 000) and, secondly, to the need to finance the anti-corrosion treatment and repainting in its entirety of the external metallic structure of the Anneau and the Palais. That exceptional operation must be carried out over a six-year period, from 2020 to 2025, for a total amount of EUR 2,1 million. For 2020, a sum of EUR 350 000 is forecast.

For its part, expenditure on energy, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 2 895 000, shows a limited increase of EUR 73 000, or + 2,59 %, which is accounted for by the forecast increase in 2020 of the variable part of the price of the green electricity which powers the Institution’s buildings.

In this connection, two major environmental initiatives must be mentioned, for they contribute significantly to the Institution’s reduced energy consumption. In the first place, assemblies of photovoltaic cells (an area of 2 750 m 2 ) installed on the roof of the new Palais allow not inconsiderable savings because of the resale of the energy thereby produced to the network operator (assessed at around EUR 120 000 in 2020). In the second place, expenditure on heating is also notably reduced by virtue of connection to the Kirchberg cogeneration plant (savings of almost 30 % compared with the consumption of a traditional heating installation and reduction in noxious emissions of nitrogen oxide).

As regards the expenditure on security and surveillance, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 7 746 000, there is an increase of EUR 224 000 (or + 2,98 %) attributable in particular to the application of contract indexing.

Lastly, in order to conclude Chapter 2 0 expenditure, first, reference must be made to the appropriations for Item 2 0 2 8 ‘Insurance’, estimated at EUR 142 000, which increase by EUR 7 000 (+ 5,19 %) compared with the current 2019 budget. That increase is due to indexing applicable to the main insurance contract (fire and associated risks). Secondly, the appropriations in Item 2 0 2 9 ‘Other expenditure on buildings’, estimated at EUR 225 000, show a reduction of EUR 26 000 (or – 10,36 %), which is due to the change in allocation of the waste management part of the cleaning contract, which will now be assigned to Item 2 0 2 2 ‘Cleaning and maintenance’, as is the case for the rest of the services covered by that contract.

3.3.2. Equipment, operating costs and services related to data-processing and telecommunications (Article 2 1 0)

As regards Chapter 2 1 ‘Data-processing, equipment and movable property: purchase, hire and maintenance’, the current appropriations (excluding reform of the General Court) relating to data-processing and telecommunications (Article 2 1 0 ‘Equipment, operating costs and services related to data-processing and telecommunications’), estimated at EUR 23 500 000, show a very slight increase (+ EUR 94 000, or + 0,4 %) compared with the current appropriations for 2019.


— Item 2 1 0 0 ‘Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and software’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 10 060 000, shows an increase of EUR 124 000 (or + 1,25 %) compared with current appropriations for 2019, which is justified, first, by the contract indexing applicable to the different contracts in force, which cannot be avoided, and, secondly, by the increases in the costs invoiced by the Commission as regards the IT services it provides to the Court and of the cost of certain licences acquired on inter-institutional framework contracts, in particular Microsoft licences. In addition, for 2020, additional hosting and storage costs must be provided for;

— Item 2 1 0 2 ‘External services for the operation, creation and maintenance of software and systems’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 13 146 000, shows a reduction of EUR 26 000, or – 0,20 % compared with current budget for 2019. That reduction takes place notwithstanding the indexing applicable to the various framework-contracts used by the Court in the area of IT;

— Item 2 1 0 3 ‘Telecommunications’, the appropriations for which total EUR 294 000, shows a reduction of EUR 4 000 (– 1,34 %) compared with 2019, because of the advantageous terms of the inter-institutional framework contracts in force.

It must be recalled that, within Chapter 2 1, the Court requests the necessary appropriations, in the amount of EUR 3,3 million, for the continued development in 2020 of the new integrated case-management system. By way of reminder, in the 2019 budget, an amount of EUR 3,5 million had been provided for in respect of that project.

3.3.3. Other current operating expenditure (excluding reform of the General Court)

As regards the other expenditure in Chapter 2 1 (excluding IT expenditure), appropriations total EUR 2 276 000, a clear decrease of EUR 2 572 500 compared with 2019 (– 53,06 %), which breaks down as follows:

— Article 2 1 2 ‘Furniture’, the appropriations of which are estimated at EUR 814 500, shows a reduction of EUR 1 974 000 (or – 70,79 %), which is due mainly to the fact that the 2019 budget included a very significant one-off item of expenditure linked to the purchase of furniture for the third tower to be occupied in the course of 2019;

— Article 2 1 4 ‘Technical equipment and installations’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 249 000, shows a reduction of EUR 536 000 (or – 68,28 %) compared with the current 2019 budget. That reduction is due in particular to the fact that the 2019 budget included specific requests for Projects CJ9 and CJ10 (six vehicle chassis scanners and other equipment);

— Article 2 1 6 ‘Vehicles’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 1 212 500, shows a decrease of EUR 62 500 (or – 4,9 %) compared with the current 2019 budget. That decrease is due to a saving in the costs of cars as a result of the reduction of the number of Members in the context of Brexit, and to the effects of the new car leasing contract signed in 2017, which is less onerous than the previous contract.

As regards the appropriations of Chapter 2 3 ‘Current administrative expenditure’, which are estimated at EUR 1 162 000, they show a notable reduction of EUR 833 000 compared with the current 2019 budget (or – 41,75 %), a reduction which stems from the following variations:

— the reduction of the appropriations of Article 2 3 0 ‘Stationery, office supplies and miscellaneous consumables’ (– EUR 49 000, or – 7,68 %), the result of the continuation of a resolute policy of ensuring the digitalisation of the flow of documents, will mean that expenditure of EUR 1 224 000 in 2009 is more than halved in 2020 (EUR 589 000);

— the reduction in appropriations in Article 2 3 1 ‘Financial charges’, which are estimated at EUR 12 000 (– EUR 3 000 compared with the current 2019 budget, or – 20 %) because of the adjustment of the request for appropriations to the actual implementation within that budget line;


— the increase in appropriations in Article 2 3 2 ‘Legal expenses and damages’, which are estimated at EUR 30 000 (+ EUR 10 000 compared with the current 2019 budget, or + 50 %). The expenditure linked to that line is by definition uncertain (it is intended to cover the amounts to be paid by the Institution in respect of non-contractual liability and its costs in relation to cases to which it is a party). However, on the basis of recent years’ experience, it is proposed to increase the amount envisaged for this budget line;

— the slight increase in appropriations in Article 2 3 6 ‘Postal charges’ (+ EUR 3 000, or + 2,36 % compared with the current 2019 budget), which is due to the indexing applicable to the contract for postal services. It must, however, be recalled that the policy of digitalisation of the flow of documents inherent in the judicial activity has made it possible to reduce postal charges from EUR 606 500 in 2009 to only EUR 130 000 in 2020;

— the reduction in appropriations in Article 2 3 8 ‘Other administrative expenditure’, which are estimated at EUR 401 000 (– EUR 794 000, or – 66,44 % compared with the current 2019 budget). That considerable reduction is essentially due to the absence of any significant removals in 2020, following the completion in 2019 of the necessary removals in order to occupy the third tower. In addition, the announcement by the Luxembourgish Ministry for Transport confirming that public transport will be free as from 1 March 2020 enables an additional reduction of appropriations of EUR 44 500, an amount entered in the 2019 budget for the purchase, for all the Institution’s staff, of travel cards to access the City of Luxembourg’s bus network.

The request for appropriations for Chapter 2 5 ‘Meetings and conferences’, in the amount of EUR 525 000, is almost unchanged compared with the current 2019 budget (increase of EUR 3 000, or + 0,57 %).

As regards the appropriations in Chapter 2 7 ‘Information: acquisition, archiving, production and distribution’, estimated at EUR 2 127 000, those appropriations show a reduction of EUR 544 000 (or – 20,37 %) compared with the 2019 current budget, which is due to the following factors:

— Article 2 7 2 ‘Documentation, library and archiving expenditure’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 1 652 000, shows a reduction of EUR 239 000 (or – 12,64 %) compared with the current 2019 budget. That reduction is due above all to the abandonment of the outsourcing of the legal analysis of judicial decisions;

— Article 2 7 4 ‘Production and distribution of information’, the appropriations for which are estimated at EUR 475 000, shows a large reduction of EUR 305 000 (or – 39,1 %) compared with the current 2019 budget. That variation is principally the result of the transfer to the Publications Office of the appropriations for the mandatory publications of all the EU institutions. Item 2 7 4 0 ‘Official Journal’ is reduced, therefore, to zero, and Item 2 7 4 1 ‘General publications’ is reduced by EUR 165 000 (which corresponds in essence to the costs of publishing the Reports of Cases).

III. REFORM OF THE GENERAL COURT

1. Introduction

As explained in the first section of the present document, after the first two phases of the reform of the European Union’s judicial structure resulting from Regulation 2015/2422, which led to the appointment of 18 additional judges to the General Court, the third phase of the reform will be completed during the partial renewal of the General Court in September 2019. The number of General Court judges will then be increased by eight additional judges, which will bring their total number to 54 judges, that is two judges per Member State.

2020 will be the first year for which the effects on the budget of the arrival of the final eight additional judges at the General Court will be extended over 12 months, given that in 2019 that court will have its full composition, of 54 judges, only for the period from September to December (four months).


The present chapter details the consequences for the budget of the General Court’s reform through the arrival of the eight additional judges, over a full year in 2020, as regards both the Members’ emoluments and certain incidental expenditure (training, IT, …). Those consequences are summarised in the following table, where they are compared with the amounts included in the 2019 budget for those same judges.

(in EUR)

Budget titles and chapters Expenditure

2020 budget (12 months)

Expenditure 2019 budget

(four months + taking up of

duties)

Difference 2020-2019

1 0 — Members of the institution 2 726 000 1 347 000 1 379 000

1 2 — Officials and temporary staff 0 0 0

1 6 — Other expenditure relating to persons working with the institution

0 0 0

Total in Title 1 2 726 000 1 347 000 1 379 000

2 0 — Buildings and associated costs 0 500 000 – 500 000

2 1 — Data-processing, equipment and movable property: purchase, hire and maintenance

223 000 264 000 – 41 000

2 3 — Current administrative operating expenditure 22 000 126 000 – 104 000

2 7 — Information: acquisition, archiving, production and distribution

15 000 29 000 – 14 000

Total in Title 2 260 000 919 000 – 659 000

Total within the Budget 2 986 000 2 266 000 720 000

It may be observed that 91 % of the expenditure in 2020 for those 12 months (EUR 2 726 000) comprises Chapter 10 expenditure, whereas the infrastructure expenditure under Title 2 is limited to EUR 260 000. The total variation between 2019 and 2020, in the amount of EUR 720 000, represents an increase of + 0,17 % on the total 2019 budget. For information, the revenue linked to those judges amounts to EUR 696 000 in 2020 (12 months), compared with EUR 224 000 in 2019 (four months).

2. Explanatory notes on expenditure in Title 1

The expenditure in Title 1 ‘Persons working with the institution’ relating to the remuneration (and certain related costs) of the judges is based on the rules currently in force. The assumptions made with respect to the adjustment of remunerations for 2020 are identical to those already mentioned in Chapter II, section 1.2.

The appropriations in the budget lines in Chapter 1 0 ‘Members of the institution’ amount, for the eight judges in question, to EUR 2 726 000, which is essentially due to the following factors:

— basic salary (during 12 months in 2020), which represents a total cost of EUR 2 108 000;


— the taking into account of the effect on various types of allowances and payments (residence allowances, family allowances, etc.) and the employer’s contribution to insurance against sickness and accidents (EUR 541 000);

— the costs related to the missions to be carried out by the eight judges in question in the performance of their duties (EUR 24 000), calculated in proportion to the total amount of the appropriations available to the other Members of the General Court;

— training costs, in particular language training, during 12 months, estimated at EUR 53 000.

3. Explanatory notes on expenditure in Title 2

As stated above, the expenditure in Title 2 linked to the arrival of the eight new judges during a first full year is estimated at EUR 260 000. It relates to the following chapters:

— Chapter 2 1: first, an amount of EUR 120 000 is provided for to finance recourse to another media technician for 12 months for the hearings of the new Chambers which will be created at the General Court as a result of the increase in the number of its Members, and an amount of EUR 6 000 for the telephone (fixed and mobile) expenses of the eight additional judges in the performance of their duties. Secondly, EUR 85 000 are provided for in order to finance the leasing of new official cars in 2020 which will be made available to those judges at the beginning of 2020;

— Chapter 2 3: EUR 22 000 are provided for in order to finance the printing, consumption of stationery and the office supplies for those eight judges;

— Chapter 2 7: EUR 15 000 are to finance the subscriptions to certain publications and the purchase of certain works which will be made available to the eight judges in question on request.

IV. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE BUDGET

First of all, in accordance with the Commission’s budgetary instruction of 6 December 2018, as already explained in Section 3.3.3 of the present document, the appropriations in Item 2 7 4 0 ‘Official Journal’ will be transferred in 2020 to the Publication Office’s budget. Consequently, from the 2020 budget onwards, the indication ‘p.m.’ must be entered in the budget nomenclature, and the budget remark for Item 2 7 4 0 must be deleted. Next, as regards Item 2 7 4 1 ‘General publications’, those appropriations intended to cover the printing and distribution costs for the Reports of cases will also be transferred to the Publication Office’s budget from the 2020 budget onwards. The budget remark for that part of the line should also be deleted. However, those appropriations intended to cover the publication costs for the Institution’s annual report and other brochures produced by the Institution for visitors are to remain in that line in the Court’s 2020 budget.

Next, as regards Item 2 0 0 8 ‘Studies and technical assistance in connection with building projects’, in order to enable assistance and consultancy-related expenditure in connection with buildings in general, and not only large-scale building projects, to be charged to that budget line, it is proposed to update, from the 2020 budget onwards, the wording and budget remark of line 2 0 0 8 as follows:

— the current wording shall be replaced by the following: ‘Studies and technical assistance in connection with buildings’;

— the current budget remark shall be replaced by the following text: ‘This appropriation is intended to cover the expenditure relating to studies and technical assistance in connection with buildings’.


REVENUE

Contribution of the European Union to the financing of the expenditure of the Court of Justice for the financial year 2020

Heading Amount

Expenditure 440 030 500

Own resources – 58 898 000

Contribution due 381 132 500

IV/22 EN 5.7.2019Draft general budget 2020


OWN RESOURCES

TITLE 4

REVENUE ACCRUING FROM PERSONS WORKING WITH THE INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER UNION BODIES

CHAPTER 4 0 — MISCELLANEOUS TAXES AND DEDUCTIONS CHAPTER 4 1 — CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PENSION SCHEME

Article Item

Heading Financial year

2020 Financial year

2019 Financial year

2018 % 2018/2020

CHAPTER 4 0

4 0 0 Proceeds from taxation on the salaries, wages and allowances of Members of the institution, officials, other servants and persons in receipt of a pension 31 876 000 30 429 728 28 108 261,62 88,18

4 0 3 Proceeds from the temporary contribution from the salaries of Members of the institution, officials and other servants in active employment p.m. p.m. 0,—

4 0 4 Proceeds from the special levy and the solidarity levy on the salaries of Members of the institution, officials and other servants in active employment 5 590 000 5 307 730 4 968 256,89 88,88

CHAPTER 4 0 — TOTAL 37 466 000 35 737 458 33 076 518,51 88,28

CHAPTER 4 1

4 1 0 Staff contributions to the pension scheme 21 432 000 20 389 756 19 679 730,43 91,82

4 1 1 Transfer or purchase of pension rights by staff p.m. p.m. 0,—

4 1 2 Contributions to the pension scheme by officials and temporary staff on leave on personal grounds p.m. p.m. 9 962,36

CHAPTER 4 1 — TOTAL 21 432 000 20 389 756 19 689 692,79 91,87

Title 4 — Total 58 898 000 56 127 214 52 766 211,30 89,59

5.7.2019 EN IV/23Draft general budget 2020


TITLE 4

REVENUE ACCRUING FROM PERSONS WORKING WITH THE INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER UNION BODIES

CHAPTER 4 0 — MISCELLANEOUS TAXES AND DEDUCTIONS

4 0 0 Proceeds from taxation on the salaries, wages and allowances of Members of the institution, officials, other servants and persons in receipt of a pension

Financial year 2020 Financial year 2019 Financial year 2018

31 876 000 30 429 728 28 108 261,62

Legal basis

Protocol on the privileges and immunities of the European Union, and in particular Article 12 thereof.

Regulation No 422/67/EEC, No 5/67/Euratom of the Council of 25 July 1967 determining the emoluments of the President and Members of the Commission, of the President, Judges, Advocates-General and Registrar of the Court of Justice, of the President, Members and Registrar of the General Court and of the President, Members and Registrar of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (OJ 187, 8.8.1967, p. 1).

Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 260/68 of the Council of 29 February 1968 laying down the conditions and procedure for applying the tax for the benefit of the European Communities (OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 8).

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).

4 0 3 Proceeds from the temporary contribution from the salaries of Members of the institution, officials and other servants in active employment


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Legal basis


Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities, and in particular Article 66a thereof in the version in force until 15 December 2003.

4 0 4 Proceeds from the special levy and the solidarity levy on the salaries of Members of the institution, officials and other servants in active employment


5 590 000 5 307 730 4 968 256,89



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CHAPTER 4 0 — MISCELLANEOUS TAXES AND DEDUCTIONS (cont'd)

4 0 4 (cont'd)

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Article 66a thereof.



CHAPTER 4 1 — CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PENSION SCHEME

4 1 0 Staff contributions to the pension scheme


21 432 000 20 389 756 19 679 730,43

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Article 83(2) thereof.

4 1 1 Transfer or purchase of pension rights by staff


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Article 11(2) and Article 48 of Annex VIII thereto.

4 1 2 Contributions to the pension scheme by officials and temporary staff on leave on personal grounds


p.m. p.m. 9 962,36

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union.

Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union.





TITLE 5

REVENUE ACCRUING FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATION OF THE INSTITUTION

CHAPTER 5 0 — PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF MOVABLE AND IMMOVABLE PROPERTY CHAPTER 5 1 — PROCEEDS FROM LETTINGS CHAPTER 5 2 — REVENUE FROM INVESTMENTS OR LOANS GRANTED, BANK AND OTHER INTEREST CHAPTER 5 5 — REVENUE FROM THE PROCEEDS OF SERVICES SUPPLIED AND WORK CARRIED OUT

Article Item


2020 Financial year

2019 Financial year

2018 % 2018/2020

CHAPTER 5 0

5 0 0 Proceeds from the sale of movable property

5 0 0 0 Proceeds from the sale of vehicles — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 0,—

5 0 0 1 Proceeds from the sale of other movable property — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 138 168,60

Article 5 0 0 — Total p.m. p.m. 138 168,60

5 0 2 Proceeds from the sale of publications, printed works and films — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 70,—

CHAPTER 5 0 — TOTAL p.m. p.m. 138 238,60

CHAPTER 5 1

5 1 1 Proceeds from letting and subletting immovable property and reimbursement of charges connected with lettings

5 1 1 0 Proceeds from letting and subletting immovable property — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 0,—

5 1 1 1 Reimbursement of charges connected with lettings — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 0,—

Article 5 1 1 — Total p.m. p.m. 0,—

CHAPTER 5 1 — TOTAL p.m. p.m. 0,—

CHAPTER 5 2

5 2 0 Revenue from investments or loans granted, bank and other interest on the institution’s accounts p.m. p.m. 0,—

5 2 2 Interest yielded by pre-financing p.m. p.m. 0,—


CHAPTER 5 5

5 5 0 Revenue from the proceeds of services supplied to or work carried out for other institutions or bodies, including the amount of mission allowances paid on behalf of other institutions or bodies and reimbursed by the latter — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 645,38

5 5 1 Revenue from third parties in respect of services supplied or work carried out at their request — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 0,—

CHAPTER 5 5 — TOTAL p.m. p.m. 645,38



CHAPTER 5 7 — OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS AND REFUNDS IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATION OF THE INSTITUTION

CHAPTER 5 8 — MISCELLANEOUS COMPENSATION CHAPTER 5 9 — OTHER REVENUE FROM ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS

Article Item


2020 Financial year

2019 Financial year

2018 % 2018/2020

CHAPTER 5 7

5 7 0 Revenue arising from the repayment of sums paid though not due — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 89 473,74

5 7 1 Revenue earmarked for a specific purpose, such as income from foundations, subsidies, gifts and bequests, including the earmarked revenue specific to each institution — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 0,—

5 7 3 Other contributions and refunds in connection with the administrative operation of the institution — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 282 105,76


CHAPTER 5 8

5 8 0 Revenue from payments connected with lettings — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 0,—

5 8 1 Revenue from insurance payments received — Assigned revenue p.m. p.m. 18 429,51


CHAPTER 5 9

5 9 0 Other revenue from administrative operations p.m. p.m. 0,—


Title 5 — Total p.m. p.m. 528 892,99



TITLE 5

REVENUE ACCRUING FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATION OF THE INSTITUTION

CHAPTER 5 0 — PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF MOVABLE AND IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

5 0 0 Proceeds from the sale of movable property

5 0 0 0 Proceeds from the sale of vehicles — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks

This item is intended to record revenue from the sale or part-exchange of vehicles belonging to the institution. It records also the proceeds from the sale of vehicles that are being replaced or scrapped when the book value is fully depreciated.

In accordance with Article 21(3) of the Financial Regulation, this revenue is to be considered as assigned revenue and gives rise to the entry of additional appropriations in the lines which bore the initial expenditure giving rise to the corresponding revenue.

5 0 0 1 Proceeds from the sale of other movable property — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 138 168,60

Remarks

This item is intended to record revenue from the sale or part-exchange of movable property, other than vehicles, belonging to the institution.


5 0 2 Proceeds from the sale of publications, printed works and films — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 70,—

Remarks




CHAPTER 5 1 — PROCEEDS FROM LETTINGS

5 1 1 Proceeds from letting and subletting immovable property and reimbursement of charges connected with lettings

5 1 1 0 Proceeds from letting and subletting immovable property — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks

In accordance with Article 21(3) of the Financial Regulation, this revenue is to be considered as assigned revenue and gives rise to the entry of additional appropriations in the lines which bore the original expenditure giving rise to the corresponding revenue.

5 1 1 1 Reimbursement of charges connected with lettings — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks

In accordance with Article 21(3) of the Financial Regulation, this revenue is to be considered as assigned revenue and gives rise to the entry of additional appropriations in the lines which bore the original expenditure giving rise to the corresponding revenue.

CHAPTER 5 2 — REVENUE FROM INVESTMENTS OR LOANS GRANTED, BANK AND OTHER INTEREST

5 2 0 Revenue from investments or loans granted, bank and other interest on the institution’s accounts


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks

This article is intended to record revenue from investments or loans granted, bank and other interest.

5 2 2 Interest yielded by pre-financing


p.m. p.m. 0,—



CHAPTER 5 5 — REVENUE FROM THE PROCEEDS OF SERVICES SUPPLIED AND WORK CARRIED OUT

5 5 0 Revenue from the proceeds of services supplied to or work carried out for other institutions or bodies, including the amount of mission allowances paid on behalf of other institutions or bodies and reimbursed by the latter — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 645,38

Remarks


5 5 1 Revenue from third parties in respect of services supplied or work carried out at their request — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks


CHAPTER 5 7 — OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS AND REFUNDS IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATION OF THE INSTITUTION

5 7 0 Revenue arising from the repayment of sums paid though not due — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 89 473,74

Remarks


5 7 1 Revenue earmarked for a specific purpose, such as income from foundations, subsidies, gifts and bequests, including the earmarked revenue specific to each institution — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 0,—



CHAPTER 5 7 — OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS AND REFUNDS IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATION OF THE INSTITUTION (cont'd)

5 7 1 (cont'd)

Remarks


5 7 3 Other contributions and refunds in connection with the administrative operation of the institution — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 282 105,76

Remarks


CHAPTER 5 8 — MISCELLANEOUS COMPENSATION

5 8 0 Revenue from payments connected with lettings — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks


5 8 1 Revenue from insurance payments received — Assigned revenue


p.m. p.m. 18 429,51

Remarks




CHAPTER 5 9 — OTHER REVENUE FROM ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS

5 9 0 Other revenue from administrative operations


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks

This article is intended to record other revenue from administrative operations.



TITLE 9

MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE

CHAPTER 9 0 — MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE

Article Item


2020 Financial year

2019 Financial year

2018 % 2018/2020

CHAPTER 9 0

9 0 0 Miscellaneous revenue p.m. p.m. 0,—


Title 9 — Total p.m. p.m. 0,—

GRAND TOTAL 58 898 000 56 127 214 53 295 104,29 90,49



TITLE 9

MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE

CHAPTER 9 0 — MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE

9 0 0 Miscellaneous revenue


p.m. p.m. 0,—



EXPENDITURE

General summary of appropriations (2020 and 2019) and outturn (2018)

Title Chapter

Heading Appropriations 2020 Appropriations 2019 Outturn 2018

1 PERSONS WORKING WITH THE INSTITUTION

1 0 MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION 37 226 000 36 939 750 32 234 266,23

1 2 OFFICIALS AND TEMPORARY STAFF 273 801 000 261 182 875 244 990 645,78

1 4 OTHER STAFF AND EXTERNAL SERVICES 27 385 500 25 585 000 23 602 659,60

1 6 OTHER EXPENDITURE RELATING TO PERSONS WORKING WITH THE INSTITUTION 6 429 000 6 445 500 6 187 418,35

Title 1 — Total 344 841 500 330 153 125 307 014 989,96

2 BUILDINGS, FURNITURE, EQUIPMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENDITURE

2 0 BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED COSTS 65 280 000 65 395 311 73 707 472,10

2 1 DATA-PROCESSING, EQUIPMENT AND MOVABLE PROPERTY: PURCHASE, HIRE AND MAINTENANCE 25 999 000 28 518 500 22 023 254,74

2 3 CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE 1 184 000 2 121 000 1 187 222,83

2 5 EXPENDITURE ON MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES 525 000 522 000 515 912,89

2 7 INFORMATION: ACQUISITION, ARCHIVING, PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION 2 142 000 2 700 000 2 215 453,18

Title 2 — Total 95 130 000 99 256 811 99 649 315,74

3 EXPENDITURE RESULTING FROM SPECIAL FUNCTIONS CARRIED OUT BY THE INSTITUTION

3 7 EXPENDITURE RELATING TO CERTAIN INSTI- TUTIONS AND BODIES 59 000 59 000 17 593,71

Title 3 — Total 59 000 59 000 17 593,71

10 OTHER EXPENDITURE

10 0 PROVISIONAL APPROPRIATIONS p.m. p.m. 0,—

10 1 CONTINGENCY RESERVE p.m. p.m. 0,—


GRAND TOTAL 440 030 500 429 468 936 406 681 899,41



TITLE 1

PERSONS WORKING WITH THE INSTITUTION

CHAPTER 1 0 — MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION CHAPTER 1 2 — OFFICIALS AND TEMPORARY STAFF

Article Item

Heading Appropriations

2020 Appropriations

2019 Outturn 2018 % 2018/2020

CHAPTER 1 0

1 0 0 Remunerations and other entitlements

1 0 0 0 Remunerations and allowances

Non-differentiated appropriations 32 565 000 30 369 000 29 008 259,13 89,08

1 0 0 2 Entitlements on entering the service, transfer and leaving the service

Non-differentiated appropriations 494 000 2 038 000 644 000,— 130,36

Article 1 0 0 — Total 33 059 000 32 407 000 29 652 259,13 89,69

1 0 2 Temporary allowances


1 0 4 Missions

Non-differentiated appropriations 280 000 299 750 342 000,— 122,14

1 0 6 Training

Non-differentiated appropriations 502 000 502 000 256 113,94 51,02

1 0 9 Provisional appropriation

Non-differentiated appropriations p.m. p.m. 0,—

CHAPTER 1 0 — TOTAL 37 226 000 36 939 750 32 234 266,23 86,59

CHAPTER 1 2




1 2 0 2 Paid overtime


1 2 0 4 Entitlements related to entering the service, transfer and leaving the service


Article 1 2 0 — Total 273 571 000 260 952 875 244 827 982,27 89,49

1 2 2 Allowances upon early termination of service

1 2 2 0 Allowances for staff retired in the interests of the service




CHAPTER 1 2 — OFFICIALS AND TEMPORARY STAFF (cont'd) CHAPTER 1 4 — OTHER STAFF AND EXTERNAL SERVICES CHAPTER 1 6 — OTHER EXPENDITURE RELATING TO PERSONS WORKING WITH THE INSTITUTION

Article Item


2020 Appropriations

2019 Outturn 2018 % 2018/2020

1 2 2 (cont'd)

1 2 2 2 Allowances for staff whose service is terminated and special retirement scheme for officials and temporary staff


Article 1 2 2 — Total 230 000 230 000 162 663,51 70,72



CHAPTER 1 2 — TOTAL 273 801 000 261 182 875 244 990 645,78 89,48

CHAPTER 1 4

1 4 0 Other staff and external persons

1 4 0 0 Other staff


1 4 0 4 In-service training and staff exchanges

Non-differentiated appropriations 1 477 000 1 444 000 745 300,— 50,46

1 4 0 5 Other external services


1 4 0 6 External services in the linguistic field


Article 1 4 0 — Total 27 385 500 25 585 000 23 602 659,60 86,19



CHAPTER 1 4 — TOTAL 27 385 500 25 585 000 23 602 659,60 86,19

CHAPTER 1 6

1 6 1 Expenditure relating to staff management

1 6 1 0 Miscellaneous expenditure for staff recruitment


1 6 1 2 Further training


Article 1 6 1 — Total 1 915 500 1 840 000 1 868 051,34 97,52

1 6 2 Missions


1 6 3 Expenditure on staff of the institution

1 6 3 0 Social welfare




CHAPTER 1 6 — OTHER EXPENDITURE RELATING TO PERSONS WORKING WITH THE INSTITUTION (cont'd)

Article Item


2020 Appropriations

2019 Outturn 2018 % 2018/2020

1 6 3 (cont'd)

1 6 3 2 Social contacts between members of staff and other welfare expenditure


Article 1 6 3 — Total 357 000 328 500 368 676,11 103,27

1 6 5 Activities relating to all persons working with the institution

1 6 5 0 Medical service


1 6 5 2 Restaurants and canteens


1 6 5 4 Early Childhood Centre

Non-differentiated appropriations 3 141 000 3 260 000 3 101 000,— 98,73

1 6 5 5 PMO expenditure for the administration of matters concerning the Court’s staff


1 6 5 6 European Schools


Article 1 6 5 — Total 3 678 000 3 778 500 3 452 190,90 93,86

CHAPTER 1 6 — TOTAL 6 429 000 6 445 500 6 187 418,35 96,24

Title 1 — Total 344 841 500 330 153 125 307 014 989,96 89,03



TITLE 1

PERSONS WORKING WITH THE INSTITUTION

CHAPTER 1 0 — MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION



Appropriations 2020 Appropriations 2019 Outturn 2018

32 565 000 30 369 000 29 008 259,13

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover, for the Members of the institution:

— basic salaries,

— residence allowances,

— family allowances, namely household allowance, dependent child allowance and education allowance,

— entertainment and service allowances,

— employer’s contribution for insurance against accidents and occupational disease, employer’s contribution for sickness insurance,

— birth grants,

— allowances provided for in the event of death of a Member of the institution,

— weightings applicable to basic salaries, residence allowances, family allowances and transfers abroad of part of the remuneration of Members of the institution (application, by analogy, of Article 17 of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union).

Legal basis

Regulation No 422/67/EEC, No 5/67/Euratom of the Council of 25 July 1967 determining the emoluments of the President and Members of the Commission, of the President, Judges, Advocates-General and Registrar of the Court of Justice, of the President, Members and Registrar of the General Court and of the President, Members and Registrar of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (OJ 187, 8.8.1967, p. 1), and in particular Articles 3, 4, 4a, 11 and 14 thereof.


1 0 0 2 Entitlements on entering the service, transfer and leaving the service


494 000 2 038 000 644 000,—





CHAPTER 1 0 — MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION (cont'd)

1 0 0 (cont'd)

1 0 0 2 (cont'd)

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover:

— travel expenses of Members of the institution (including family members) on entering the service or leaving the institution,

— installation and resettlement allowances payable to Members of the institution on taking up or leaving their appointments,

— removal expenses payable to Members of the institution on taking up or leaving their appointments.

Legal basis

Regulation No 422/67/EEC, No 5/67/Euratom of the Council of 25 July 1967 determining the emoluments of the President and Members of the Commission, of the President, Judges, Advocates-General and Registrar of the Court of Justice, of the President, Members and Registrar of the General Court and of the President, Members and Registrar of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (OJ 187, 8.8.1967, p. 1), and in particular Article 5 thereof.


1 0 2 Temporary allowances


3 385 000 3 731 000 1 983 893,16

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover temporary allowances, family allowances and weightings applicable for the country of residence of former Members of the institution.

Legal basis










1 0 4 Missions


280 000 299 750 342 000,—

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover travel expenses, daily subsistence allowances and ancillary or special costs incurred for missions.

Amount of assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(3) of the Financial Regulation: p.m.

Legal basis



1 0 6 Training


502 000 502 000 256 113,94

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the costs of language or other training courses for Members of the institution.



p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the effect of any updates of remuneration in the course of the financial year.

This appropriation is purely provisional and may be used only after its transfer to other headings in accordance with the Financial Regulation.






1 0 9 (cont'd)

Legal basis

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).

CHAPTER 1 2 — OFFICIALS AND TEMPORARY STAFF

Remarks

A standard abatement of 2,5 % was applied to the appropriations entered in this chapter.




270 721 000 257 991 875 242 380 731,18

Remarks


— basic salaries of officials and temporary staff,

— family allowances, comprising household allowances, dependent child allowances, education allowances, for officials and temporary staff,

— expatriation and foreign residence allowances for officials and temporary staff,

— secretarial allowances for officials in grade AST employed as shorthand typists, telex operators, typists, executive secretaries or principal secretaries,

— employer's contribution to sickness insurance,

— employer’s contribution to insurance against accidents and occupational diseases and supplementary expenses resulting from the application of the relevant provisions of the Staff Regulations,

— unemployment insurance for temporary staff,

— payments to be made by the institution for the benefit of temporary staff in order to constitute or maintain pension rights for them in their country of origin,





CHAPTER 1 2 — OFFICIALS AND TEMPORARY STAFF (cont'd)

1 2 0 (cont'd)

1 2 0 0 (cont'd)

— birth grants and the payment on the death of an official of his or her full salary up to the end of the third month after death together with the cost of transporting the body to the deceased’s place of origin,

— travel expenses for annual leave of officials or temporary staff, their spouses and their dependants, from their place of employment to their place of origin,

— dismissal compensation for probationary officials dismissed for manifest unsuitability, allowance on termination of contract by the institution for temporary staff, reimbursement of pension contributions for former auxiliary staff appointed as temporary agents or as officials,

— impact of the weightings applicable to the remuneration of officials and auxiliary staff and to overtime,

— accommodation and transport allowances,

— fixed duty allowances,

— fixed local travel allowances,

— allowances for round-the-clock or shift duties or for standby duty at work and/or at home.


Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Articles 62, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 68 thereof and Section I of Annex VII thereto, Article 69 thereof and Article 4 of Annex VII thereto, Article 18 of Annex XIII thereto, Articles 72 and 73 thereof and Article 15 of Annex VIII thereto, Articles 70, 74 and 75 thereof and Article 8 of Annex VII thereto, and Article 34 thereof.

Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union, and in particular Articles 28a, 42, 47 and 48 thereof.

Joint rules on sickness insurance for officials of the European Communities, and in particular Article 23 thereof.

1 2 0 2 Paid overtime


740 000 708 000 675 800,13

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover flat-rate allowances and hourly rates for overtime worked by officials and auxiliary staff and by local staff, which could not be compensated for, as envisaged, by time off.




1 2 0 (cont'd)

1 2 0 2 (cont'd)

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Article 56 thereof and Annex VI thereto.

1 2 0 4 Entitlements related to entering the service, transfer and leaving the service


2 110 000 2 253 000 1 771 450,96

Remarks


— travel expenses for staff (and their families) on taking up or leaving the service of the institution,

— installation and reinstallation expenses incurred by staff obliged to move after entering the service and by staff who resettle on leaving it,

— removal expenses incurred by staff obliged to move after entering the service and by staff who resettle on leaving it,

— daily subsistence allowances of staff who show that they have been obliged to move after entering the service.


Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Articles 20 and 71 thereof and Articles 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 of Annex VII thereto.

1 2 2 Allowances upon early termination of service

1 2 2 0 Allowances for staff retired in the interests of the service


230 000 230 000 162 663,51




1 2 2 (cont'd)

1 2 2 0 (cont'd)

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover allowances to officials assigned non-active status following a reduction in the number of posts in the institution, to officials holding a post in grades AD 14, AD 15 or AD 16 who are retired in the interests of the service, and to officials placed on leave in the interests of the service for organisational needs linked to the acquisition of new competences within the institutions.

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Articles 42c and 50 thereof, and Annex IV thereto.

1 2 2 2 Allowances for staff whose service is terminated and special retirement scheme for officials and temporary staff


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks


— allowances to be paid in accordance with the Staff Regulations or other regulations,

— employer's contribution to sickness insurance for persons in receipt of allowances,

— effect of weightings applicable to various allowances.

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Articles 64 and 72 thereof.



p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks





1 2 9 (cont'd)

This appropriation is purely provisional and may be used only after its transfer to other headings in accordance with the Financial Regulation.

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Article 65 thereof.


CHAPTER 1 4 — OTHER STAFF AND EXTERNAL SERVICES

1 4 0 Other staff and external persons

1 4 0 0 Other staff


8 371 000 8 208 000 7 521 918,75

Remarks


— remuneration and employer's contribution to the social security scheme of auxiliary staff, auxiliary interpreters, local staff, and auxiliary translators,

— fees and expenses of the special advisers, including the fees of the medical officer,

— expenditure incurred in having recourse to contract agents.


Legal basis

Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union, and in particular Article 4 and Title V thereof, and Article 5 and Title VI thereof.

1 4 0 4 In-service training and staff exchanges


1 477 000 1 444 000 745 300,—





CHAPTER 1 4 — OTHER STAFF AND EXTERNAL SERVICES (cont'd)

1 4 0 (cont'd)

1 4 0 4 (cont'd)

Remarks


— expenditure incurred relating to secondment to the services of the Court of Justice of the European Union of officials of Member States or of other national experts,

— grants to trainees, sickness insurance during the traineeship period and a contribution to travel expenses,

— the reimbursement of the additional costs incurred by officials in consequence of their secondment outside the institution.

1 4 0 5 Other external services


234 000 234 000 226 388,—

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover expenses of external staff where such work cannot be performed by the institution’s staff.

1 4 0 6 External services in the linguistic field


17 303 500 15 699 000 15 109 052,85

Remarks


— expenditure related to actions decided on by the Interinstitutional Committee for Translation and Interpretation with a view to promoting interinstitutional cooperation in the sphere of languages,

— payment for freelance interpreters from the Commission’s Directorate-General for Interpretation,

— payment for conference interpreter agents,

— payment for the services of contractual and ad hoc conference staff,



CHAPTER 1 4 — OTHER STAFF AND EXTERNAL SERVICES (cont'd)

1 4 0 (cont'd)

1 4 0 6 (cont'd)

— supplementary services in connection with proofreading, in particular fees and insurance, travel, subsistence and mission costs for freelance proofreaders and ancillary administrative costs,

— expenditure for independent or agency translators or typing and other work done outside the institution for the translation department.

The Court of Justice of the European Union will endeavour to cooperate with the other institutions, by means of an interinstitutional understanding, in order to avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts in translating procedural documents, thereby securing further savings for the general budget of the Union.



p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks


This appropriation is purely provisional and may be used only after its transfer to other articles or items of this chapter in accordance with the Financial Regulation.

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Articles 65 and 65a thereof and Annex XI thereto.


CHAPTER 1 6 — OTHER EXPENDITURE RELATING TO PERSONS WORKING WITH THE INSTITUTION

1 6 1 Expenditure relating to staff management

1 6 1 0 Miscellaneous expenditure for staff recruitment


170 000 180 500 161 119,47






1 6 1 (cont'd)

1 6 1 0 (cont'd)

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the costs of arranging the staff selection procedures arranged by the Court of Justice of the European Union directly, and the expenditure connected with the candidates’ travel and medical examination.

In cases duly justified by operational requirements and after consultation with the European Personnel Selection Office, the appropriation may be used for competitions organised by the institution itself.


1 6 1 2 Further training


1 745 500 1 659 500 1 706 931,87

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover further professional training and retraining courses, including language courses, run on an interinstitutional basis.

It also covers expenditure on educational and technical equipment.


Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Article 24a thereof.

1 6 2 Missions


478 500 498 500 498 500,—

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover transport costs, payment of daily subsistence allowances on mission and ancillary or special costs connected with missions.





1 6 2 (cont'd)

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Articles 11, 12 and 13 of Annex VII thereto.

1 6 3 Expenditure on staff of the institution

1 6 3 0 Social welfare


20 000 20 000 20 000,—

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover assistance to be given to staff in particularly difficult circumstances.

It is also intended for the following categories of persons as part of a policy to assist people with disabilities:

— officials and temporary staff in active employment,

— spouses of officials and temporary staff in active employment,

— all dependent children within the meaning of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union.

It covers reimbursement, to the extent permitted by the budget and after national entitlements in the country of residence or the country of origin have been exhausted, of expenses (other than medical expenses) recognised as necessary, resulting from the disability and supported by documentary evidence.

Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Article 76 thereof.

1 6 3 2 Social contacts between members of staff and other welfare expenditure


337 000 308 500 348 676,11

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to:

— give financial encouragement and support to any project aimed at encouraging social contacts between staff of different nationalities, such as subsidies to staff clubs, cultural associations and sports associations,

— cover other assistance and subsidies for staff and their families.




1 6 3 (cont'd)

1 6 3 2 (cont'd)


1 6 5 Activities relating to all persons working with the institution

1 6 5 0 Medical service


187 000 205 000 130 899,33

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the expenses of the annual medical examination of all officials, including tests and further medical examinations requested in connection therewith, together with the operating costs of the medical centre.


Legal basis

Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, and in particular Article 59 thereof and Article 8 of Annex II thereto.

1 6 5 2 Restaurants and canteens


192 000 137 000 87 928,69

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the acquisition and maintenance of equipment in the restaurant and cafeteria, together with part of their operating costs.

It also covers the alteration and renewal costs for restaurant and canteen equipment.


1 6 5 4 Early Childhood Centre


3 141 000 3 260 000 3 101 000,—




1 6 5 (cont'd)

1 6 5 4 (cont'd)

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the contribution of the Court of Justice of the European Union to the Early Childhood Centre and study centre in Luxembourg.


1 6 5 5 PMO expenditure for the administration of matters concerning the Court’s staff


113 000 118 000 86 500,—

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover expenditure incurred under service agreements between the Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements (PMO) and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

1 6 5 6 European Schools


45 000 58 500 45 862,88

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the contribution of the Court of Justice of the European Union to Type-II European Schools accredited by the Board of Governors of the European Schools or the reimbursement of the contribution paid by the Commission on behalf of the Court of Justice of the European Union for Type-II European Schools accredited by the Board of Governors of the European Schools, in accordance with the service agreement concluded with the Commission. It covers costs relating to children of staff of the Court of Justice of the European Union falling under the Staff Regulations who are enrolled in such schools.



TITLE 2

BUILDINGS, FURNITURE, EQUIPMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENDITURE

CHAPTER 2 0 — BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED COSTS

Article Item


2020 Appropriations

2019 Outturn 2018 % 2018/2020

CHAPTER 2 0

2 0 0 Buildings

2 0 0 0 Rent

Non-differentiated appropriations 120 000 7 034 000 9 158 507,48 7 632,09

2 0 0 1 Lease/purchase


2 0 0 3 Acquisition of immovable property


2 0 0 5 Construction of buildings


2 0 0 7 Fitting-out of premises


2 0 0 8 Studies and technical assistance in connection with buildings


Article 2 0 0 — Total 44 285 000 45 625 311 55 872 928,90 126,17

2 0 2 Costs relating to buildings

2 0 2 2 Cleaning and maintenance


2 0 2 4 Energy consumption


2 0 2 6 Security and surveillance of buildings


2 0 2 8 Insurance


2 0 2 9 Other expenditure on buildings


Article 2 0 2 — Total 20 995 000 19 770 000 17 834 543,20 84,95

CHAPTER 2 0 — TOTAL 65 280 000 65 395 311 73 707 472,10 112,91



CHAPTER 2 1 — DATA-PROCESSING, EQUIPMENT AND MOVABLE PROPERTY: PURCHASE, HIRE AND MAINTENANCE

CHAPTER 2 3 — CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE CHAPTER 2 5 — EXPENDITURE ON MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

Article Item


2020 Appropriations

2019 Outturn 2018 % 2018/2020

CHAPTER 2 1

2 1 0 Equipment, operating costs and services related to data- processing and telecommunications

2 1 0 0 Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and software


2 1 0 2 External services for the operation, creation and maintenance of software and systems


2 1 0 3 Telecommunications


Article 2 1 0 — Total 23 626 000 23 590 000 19 854 915,96 84,04

2 1 2 Furniture

Non-differentiated appropriations 814 500 2 844 500 623 473,33 76,55

2 1 4 Technical equipment and installations


2 1 6 Vehicles

Non-differentiated appropriations 1 309 500 1 299 000 1 245 750,— 95,13

CHAPTER 2 1 — TOTAL 25 999 000 28 518 500 22 023 254,74 84,71

CHAPTER 2 3

2 3 0 Stationery, office supplies and miscellaneous consumables


2 3 1 Financial charges


2 3 2 Legal expenses and damages


2 3 6 Postal charges


2 3 8 Other administrative expenditure

Non-differentiated appropriations 401 000 1 299 000 374 844,55 93,48

CHAPTER 2 3 — TOTAL 1 184 000 2 121 000 1 187 222,83 100,27

CHAPTER 2 5

2 5 2 Reception and representation expenses




CHAPTER 2 5 — EXPENDITURE ON MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES (cont'd) CHAPTER 2 7 — INFORMATION: ACQUISITION, ARCHIVING, PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Article Item


2020 Appropriations

2019 Outturn 2018 % 2018/2020

2 5 4 Meetings, congresses, conferences and visits


CHAPTER 2 5 — TOTAL 525 000 522 000 515 912,89 98,27

CHAPTER 2 7

2 7 0 Limited consultations, studies and surveys


2 7 2 Documentation, library and archiving expenditure


2 7 4 Production and distribution of information

2 7 4 0 Official Journal

Non-differentiated appropriations p.m. 150 000 119 701,80

2 7 4 1 General publications


2 7 4 2 Other information expenditure


Article 2 7 4 — Total 475 000 780 000 767 493,80 161,58

CHAPTER 2 7 — TOTAL 2 142 000 2 700 000 2 215 453,18 103,43

Title 2 — Total 95 130 000 99 256 811 99 649 315,74 104,75



TITLE 2

BUILDINGS, FURNITURE, EQUIPMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENDITURE

CHAPTER 2 0 — BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED COSTS

2 0 0 Buildings

2 0 0 0 Rent


120 000 7 034 000 9 158 507,48

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover rent for the buildings occupied by the institution.


2 0 0 1 Lease/purchase


40 076 000 35 354 311 42 873 982,25

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover payments in respect of buildings under lease/purchase contracts.


2 0 0 3 Acquisition of immovable property


p.m. p.m. 0,—

2 0 0 5 Construction of buildings


p.m. p.m. 0,—

Remarks

This item is intended for any entry of appropriations for the construction of buildings.

2 0 0 7 Fitting-out of premises


2 427 000 1 729 000 2 139 627,12



CHAPTER 2 0 — BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED COSTS (cont'd)

2 0 0 (cont'd)

2 0 0 7 (cont'd)

Remarks


— various kinds of fitting-out work, including in particular the installation of partitions, curtains, cables, painting, wall coverings, floor coverings, suspended ceilings and the related technical installations,

— expenditure relating to work resulting from studies and assistance.


2 0 0 8 Studies and technical assistance in connection with buildings


1 662 000 1 508 000 1 700 812,05

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the expenditure relating to studies and technical assistance in connection with buildings.

2 0 2 Costs relating to buildings

2 0 2 2 Cleaning and maintenance


9 987 000 9 040 000 8 265 680,80

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover maintenance and cleaning costs, in accordance with the current contracts, relating to the premises and technical installations together with expenditure on the work and equipment necessary for the general maintenance (repainting, repairs, etc.) of the buildings occupied by the institution.


2 0 2 4 Energy consumption


2 895 000 2 822 000 2 126 024,12



CHAPTER 2 0 — BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED COSTS (cont'd)

2 0 2 (cont'd)

2 0 2 4 (cont'd)

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover consumption of water, gas, electricity and heating fuel.

The amount of assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(3) of the Financial Regulation is estimated at EUR 120 000.

2 0 2 6 Security and surveillance of buildings


7 746 000 7 522 000 7 079 074,35

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover, in essence, security costs for the buildings occupied by the institution.


2 0 2 8 Insurance


142 000 135 000 122 000,—

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover insurance premiums payable under the insurance policies taken out for the buildings occupied by the institution.


2 0 2 9 Other expenditure on buildings


225 000 251 000 241 763,93

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover other running costs not specially provided for in other articles of this chapter, in particular road charges, sanitation, refuse collection, road signs, etc.




CHAPTER 2 1 — DATA-PROCESSING, EQUIPMENT AND MOVABLE PROPERTY: PURCHASE, HIRE AND MAINTENANCE

2 1 0 Equipment, operating costs and services related to data-processing and telecommunications

2 1 0 0 Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and software


10 060 000 10 060 000 8 262 363,48

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the acquisition, replacement, hire, repair and maintenance of all equipment and installations connected with data-processing, electronic office systems and telephony (including fax machines, and video-conference and multimedia equipment), and also interpreting equipment and facilities, such as booths, headsets, and switching units for simultaneous interpreting facilities.


2 1 0 2 External services for the operation, creation and maintenance of software and systems


13 266 000 13 230 000 11 336 887,97

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover computer analysis and programming.


2 1 0 3 Telecommunications


300 000 300 000 255 664,51

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover all expenditure related to telecommunications, such as subscriptions and communication costs (fixed and mobile).

It also covers expenditure related to data-transmission networks.


2 1 2 Furniture


814 500 2 844 500 623 473,33



CHAPTER 2 1 — DATA-PROCESSING, EQUIPMENT AND MOVABLE PROPERTY: PURCHASE, HIRE AND MAINTENANCE (cont'd)

2 1 2 (cont'd)

Remarks


— the purchase of extra furniture,

— the replacement of some of the furniture which is at least 15 years old and of the furniture which is not repairable,

— the hire of furniture,

— the maintenance and repair of furniture.


2 1 4 Technical equipment and installations


249 000 785 000 299 115,45

Remarks


— the purchase of technical equipment,

— the replacement of technical equipment, in particular of audiovisual, archive and library equipment and various tools for maintenance workshops for buildings, and reproduction, dissemination and mailing equipment,

— the hire of technical equipment and installations,

— the maintenance and repair of the equipment referred to in this article.


2 1 6 Vehicles


1 309 500 1 299 000 1 245 750,—



CHAPTER 2 1 — DATA-PROCESSING, EQUIPMENT AND MOVABLE PROPERTY: PURCHASE, HIRE AND MAINTENANCE (cont'd)

2 1 6 (cont'd)

Remarks


— the acquisition of vehicles,

— the replacement of vehicles which have the most mileage in excess of 120 000 kilometres,

— the cost of hiring and operating hired vehicles,

— the maintenance, repair, garaging, parking fees, motorway charges and insurance for the service fleet.

The amount of assigned revenue under Article 21(3) of the Financial Regulation is estimated at EUR 31 700.

CHAPTER 2 3 — CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE

2 3 0 Stationery, office supplies and miscellaneous consumables


611 000 660 000 547 378,28

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the purchase of:

— xerox, photocopy and invoice paper,

— paper and office supplies,

— duplicating equipment supplies,

— supplies for the general circulation of information and for mailing,

— sound-recording supplies,

— printed matter and forms,

— computer and electronic office equipment supplies,

— other supplies and material not recorded in the inventory.

The amount of assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(3) of the Financial Regulation is estimated at EUR 2 000.



CHAPTER 2 3 — CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE (cont'd)

2 3 1 Financial charges


12 000 15 000 6 000,—

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover banking charges (commission, agios, miscellaneous charges) and other financial charges.

Bank interest accruing on the institution’s account is listed under revenue.

2 3 2 Legal expenses and damages


30 000 20 000 130 000,—

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover, inter alia, lawyers’ fees which the institution must pay in consideration for professional services supplied to it or as reimbursement of costs which the institution must bear in implementation of a court order, and damages.


2 3 6 Postal charges


130 000 127 000 129 000,—

Remarks


2 3 8 Other administrative expenditure


401 000 1 299 000 374 844,55

Remarks


— various kinds of insurance (in particular civil liability, theft, risks connected with word-processing equipment, electrical liability),



CHAPTER 2 3 — CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE (cont'd)

2 3 8 (cont'd)

— the purchase, maintenance and cleaning of, in particular, judicial robes, uniforms for ushers and drivers, working clothes for staff responsible for the reproduction of documents and maintenance staff,

— miscellaneous expenditure for internal meetings,

— removal and handling costs for equipment, furniture and office supplies,

— operating expenditure incurred by service providers,

— other running costs not specially provided for in the preceding items.


CHAPTER 2 5 — EXPENDITURE ON MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

2 5 2 Reception and representation expenses


145 000 142 000 141 999,34

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover expenditure connected with the institution’s duties as host and representative, and reception and representation expenses for members of staff.

2 5 4 Meetings, congresses, conferences and visits


380 000 380 000 373 913,55

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover principally the organisation, with the collaboration of the Ministries of Justice, of seminars and other training programmes at the seat of the institution for members of the judiciary and the legal profession from the Member States.

Meetings with members of the national higher courts and with specialists in Union law are necessary in order to facilitate the development of the case-law of the institution concurrently with that of the national courts in matters connected with Union law.

This appropriation is also intended to cover travel and subsistence expenses for participants and other organisation costs.



CHAPTER 2 5 — EXPENDITURE ON MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES (cont'd)

2 5 4 (cont'd)

Finally, this appropriation is intended also to fund visits by groups of visitors who are not law professionals, and especially students.


CHAPTER 2 7 — INFORMATION: ACQUISITION, ARCHIVING, PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

2 7 0 Limited consultations, studies and surveys


p.m. p.m. 0,—

2 7 2 Documentation, library and archiving expenditure


1 667 000 1 920 000 1 447 959,38

Remarks


— the acquisition of books, documents and other publications and updates for existing volumes,

— the entry and purchase of computerised legal data,

— special equipment for the library,

— subscriptions to newspapers, non-specialised periodicals and various bulletins,

— subscriptions to news agencies,

— the binding and upkeep of library books,

— access charges for certain legal databases,

— the contribution of the Court of Justice of the European Union to the costs of retention and protection of the historical archives of the Union at the European University Institute in Florence,

— the work of analysing decisions of the courts and supplying data for databases.



CHAPTER 2 7 — INFORMATION: ACQUISITION, ARCHIVING, PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION (cont'd)

2 7 2 (cont'd)


2 7 4 Production and distribution of information

2 7 4 0 Official Journal


p.m. 150 000 119 701,80

2 7 4 1 General publications


290 000 455 000 452 960,25

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover publication costs for the Annual Report of the Court and other brochures produced by the Court for visitors.


2 7 4 2 Other information expenditure


185 000 175 000 194 831,75

Remarks

This appropriation is intended to cover the purchase and publication of works of general interest on Union law, other expenditure on the dissemination of information, on communication and on photographic costs. It is also intended to be used to facilitate the organisation of meetings with journalists, editors of legal periodicals or researchers from third countries.



TITLE 3

EXPENDITURE RESULTING FROM SPECIAL FUNCTIONS CARRIED OUT BY THE INSTITUTION

CHAPTER 3 7 — EXPENDITURE RELATING TO CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

Article Item


2020 Appropriations

2019 Outturn 2018 % 2018/2020

CHAPTER 3 7

3 7 1 Special expenditure of the Court of Justice of the European Union

3 7 1 0 Court’s expenses


3 7 1 1 Arbitration Committee provided for in Article 18 of the Euratom Treaty


Article 3 7 1 — Total 59 000 59 000 17 593,71 29,82

CHAPTER 3 7 — TOTAL 59 000 59 000 17 593,71 29,82

Title 3 — Total 59 000 59 000 17 593,71 29,82



TITLE 3

EXPENDITURE RESULTING FROM SPECIAL FUNCTIONS CARRIED OUT BY THE INSTITUTION

CHAPTER 3 7 — EXPENDITURE RELATING TO CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

3 7 1 Special expenditure of the Court of Justice of the European Union

3 7 1 0 Court’s expenses


59 000 59 000 17 593,71

Remarks

This appropriation is to ensure the proper administration of justice in all cases of legal aid and for all expenses of witnesses and expert witnesses, of the cost of inspection of places or things involved in proceedings and of letters rogatory, legal representation and other costs which the institution may have to bear.


3 7 1 1 Arbitration Committee provided for in Article 18 of the Euratom Treaty


p.m. p.m. 0,—



TITLE 10

OTHER EXPENDITURE

CHAPTER 10 0 — PROVISIONAL APPROPRIATIONS CHAPTER 10 1 — CONTINGENCY RESERVE

Article Item


2020 Appropriations

2019 Outturn 2018 % 2018/2020

CHAPTER 10 0 p.m. p.m. 0,—


CHAPTER 10 1 p.m. p.m. 0,—



GRAND TOTAL 440 030 500 429 468 936 406 681 899,41 92,42



TITLE 10

OTHER EXPENDITURE

CHAPTER 10 0 — PROVISIONAL APPROPRIATIONS


p.m. p.m. 0,—

CHAPTER 10 1 — CONTINGENCY RESERVE


p.m. p.m. 0,—



STAFF

Section IV — Court of Justice of the European Union

Function group and grade 2020 2019

Permanent posts Temporary posts Permanent posts Temporary posts

AD 16 5 — 5 —

AD 15 12 3 12 3

AD 14 81 ( 1 ) 56 ( 1 ) 66 ( 1 ) 56 ( 1 )

AD 13 96 — 96 —

AD 12 84 ( 2 ) 91 99 ( 2 ) 86

AD 11 91 107 64 97

AD 10 176 51 189 45

AD 9 179 9 152 3

AD 8 112 1 153 1

AD 7 81 1 78 28

AD 6 11 — 11 —

AD 5 38 — 33 —

Subtotal AD 966 319 958 319

AST 11 12 — 12 —

AST 10 15 1 15 1

AST 9 40 — 39 —

AST 8 45 15 46 15

AST 7 58 38 41 38

AST 6 94 36 81 36

AST 5 126 22 129 22

AST 4 76 59 103 59

AST 3 69 26 72 26

AST 2 13 5 13 5

AST 1 1 — 1 —

Subtotal AST 549 202 552 202

AST/SC 6 — — — —

AST/SC 5 — 3 — 3

AST/SC 4 — — — —

AST/SC 3 — — — —

AST/SC 2 34 — 34 —

AST/SC 1 — — — —

Subtotal AST/SC 34 3 34 3

Total 1 549 ( 3 ) 524 1 544 ( 3 ) 524

Grand total 2 073 ( 4 ) 2 068 ( 4 )

( 1 ) Of which 1 AD 15 ad personam. ( 2 ) Of which 1 AD 14 ad personam.

( 3 ) Not including the contingency reserve, without allocation of appropriations, for officials seconded to Members of the Court of Justice or the General Court (6 AD 12, 12 AD 11, 20 AD 10, 15 AD 7, 11 AST 6, 17 AST 5, 21 AST 4, 8 AST 3).

( 4 ) Certain posts occupied part-time may be compensated by the appointment of other staff within the limit of the remaining posts thus left unoccupied by function group.



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