European Institutions (Running Costs)

HC Deb 17 February 1997 vol 290 cc405-6W

Mr. William Powell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his current estimate of the annual running costs of(a) the European Commission, (b) the European Parliament, (c) the European Court of Justice and (d) other EU institutions. [15727]

Mr. David Davis

The running costs of EU institutions in 1995, 1996 and 1997 are as follows:

	1995	1996	1997
Commission	2,538.6	2,696.7	2,798.1
Parliament	832.1	802.7	887.2
Council	306.2	307.0	320.3
Court of Justice	112.9	169.7	123.1
Court of Auditors	50.0	56.2	57.7
Economic and Social Committee	25.0	27.6	27.9
Committee of the Regions	10.5	16.1	15.6

	1995	1996	1997
Joint organisational structure (supports the Economic and Social Committee of the Regions)	49.8	52.6	53.8

All figures are commitments in mecu and are rounded to the nearest 0.1 mecu. The 1995 figures are taken from the Court of Auditors annual report concerning the financial year 1995. The 1996 and 1997 figures have been taken from the general budget of the European Union for these years.