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First of all I would like to say that the question of the seat of the European Parliament is covered by Protocol No 8 on the establishment of the seats of the institutions, specific organisations and services of the European Communities such as Europol, and is annexed to the Treaty of Amsterdam. The question of the location of the institutions has had a very high priority and concerns a high level of decision-making, relating not only to the location of our institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg, but also to Luxembourg. This concerns a very high-level political decision.
For the Commission the total cost of missions of officials to Strasbourg amounted to EUR 1.7 million in 2003. This includes all the costs of missions, including those of Commission officials and members of Commissioners' offices. So this is not a large amount of money. A slightly higher amount is forecast for the future.
You asked about all the costs for the Union. We do not have a very precise overview of all costs, but we know that for the European Parliament the costs are much higher. According to the March 2004 report by Mr van Hulten, MEP, the total cost of having part-sessions in both Brussels and Strasbourg amounts to about EUR 200 million annually.
Mr van Hulten favoured Brussels as the single seat of Parliament and he was supported by Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control. The Commission is not in a position to judge the functioning of the European Parliament."@en1
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