Domstolen har helt klart lidt under den restriktive personalepolitik men ikke i en grad, der udelukker, at den fortsat kan gøre sit arbejde forsvarligt.
To the Court of Auditors, it was always clear that Parliament were going to regard them as the one exception to the rule that there would be no staff increases. We had agreed, not merely to increase the staff as Mr Fabra Vallés has reminded them, but to do it in two instalments with the 23 posts in the supplementary and amending budget and the 25 posts in my budget.