Answer given by Mr Hahn on behalf of the European Commission
28.2.2024
The Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission[1] stipulates that their mission expenses are covered from the Commission’s global envelope and managed by the Head of Cabinet of the Member concerned (legal authorising officer), who also certifies the validity of invoices.
When it comes to the missions of the President, the Head of President’s Cabinet may subdelegate this power to the Director of Coordination and Administration in the President’s Cabinet.
In addition to the information provided in its reply to written parliamentary Question P-001138/2023, the Commission is sending directly to the Honourable Member and to the European Parliament’s Secretariat a table containing information on the use of air taxis charged to the EU budget, including preliminary data on the year 2023.
In the period indicated by the Honourable Member, i.e. since March 2023 until today, no companies have covered travel costs neither for Members of the Commission nor for staff members.
Concerning data related to the name of passengers other than Members of the Commission, the Commission does not include the requested personal data in the present reply, with a view to the data protection requirements laid down in Regulation (EU) 2018/1725[2].
See annex : Annex
- [1] Commission Decision C(2018) 700 final, of 31 January 2018, on a Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission and in particular Annex 2 thereof. See: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018D0221(02)&from=EN
- [2] Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC, OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39.