European Parliament
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves  (PPE ),
in writing.
(PT)
The Committee of the Regions has drawn up an improvement plan in response to the organisational management self-assessment, performed according to the Common Assessment Framework (CAF). It aims,
inter alia
, to look into how the committee’s political mechanisms might benefit from the improved efficiency, including possible reductions in travel expenses that might be achieved with the use of video-conferencing. Because of these and other measures, together with the Council’s favourable recommendation and the reports by the European Court of Auditors, I voted to approve the accounts submitted by the European Commission and to grant discharge for the accounts for 2010, Section VII – Committee of the Regions.

