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Committee of Ministers
Comité des Ministres
Strasbourg, 22 October 1998 Restricted
CM(98)114
Addendum
For consideration at the 651st meeting
of the Ministers’ Deputies
(8-10 December 1998, A level, item 11.4)
APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS AND ALTERNATE MEMBERS OF THE BUDGET COMMITTEE FOR THE PERIOD 1 JANUARY 1999 - 31 DECEMBER 2001
1. The term of office of the Budget Committee's present members and alternate members comes to an end on 31 December 1998.
2. In accordance with Article 29 of the Financial Regulations and the procedure for appointing Budget Committee members adopted by the Ministers' Deputies at their 308th meeting (September 1979, item 27) and modified at the 593rd meeting of the Deputies in May 1997 (CM/Del/Dec(97)593/11.1), the Committee of Ministers is required at its 651st meeting (8-10 December 1998) to make new appointments to the Budget Committee for the three-year period 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2001.
3. On 1 July 1998 (CM(98)114), the Secretariat gave notice that candidatures for the Budget Committee's regular and alternate members for the next mandate, from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2001, should be submitted by 15 October 1998. At their 641st meeting (September 1998, B level, item 11.3), the Deputies were reminded of the closing date for nominations and informed of those already received.
4. As of 15 October 1998, the following 11 nominations, arranged by group of states, had been received:
Nominations
Received Members Alternate Members
GROUP 1:
FRANCE : - Mr J-C. SPINDLER - Mr A. VERNINA
GERMANY: - Mr J. HOLBORN - Mr W. KOSCHORREK
ITALY: - Mr C. DE ROSE
RUSSIAN FEDERATION: - Mr V. VISLYKH - Mr V. KUZNETSOV
UNITED KINGDOM: - Mr G. SPEAR - Mr F. EASTON
GROUP 2:
AUSTRIA: - Mr B. WALDERT - Mr G. WIND
BELGIUM: - Mr A. GEENS - Mrs A. VAN NIEUWENBURG
NETHERLANDS: - Mr A. CALS - Mr J. C. VAN EERDE
NORWAY: - Mr T. Hauf - Mrs R. Fredheim
ROMANIA: - Mrs C. GHITA - Mrs C. BODNAR
SPAIN: - Mrs A de la FUENTE SANTORCUATO
- Mr A. GONZALEZ GOMEZ
APPENDIX I
FRANCE
Member: Spindler Jean-Claude
Financial controller, 2nd class
Born on 15 April 1943 in Argenteuil (95)
Present Duties:
Financial controller for the region of Alsace
Office address:
Trésorerie Générale
25 avenue des Vosges
BP 1048F
67070 Strasbourg Cedex
Telephone: + 33 03 88 56 55 00 Fax: + 33 03 88 55 55 02
Training:
Graduated as a Bachelor of Science (certificates in mathematics and statistics) in 1967
Enrolled at the CEPE from October 1972 to July 1973
Language skills (on a scale from 1 to 5):
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Language |
Read |
Spoken |
Written |
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French |
5 |
5 |
5 |
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English |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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German |
2 |
1 |
2 |
Civil Service Career:
Joined the Ministry of Economy and Finance as a central administrative assistant on 16 August 1968
Appointed "civil administrator" on 26 January 1983
Appointed Financial Controller on 1 January 1997
Professional experience
August 1968 – October 1972
Directorate of Forecasting - economic budgets
Work on developing economic budget models and summaries
July 1973 – January 1978
Directorate of Forecasting – public-sector and government offices section: head of the team in charge of accounting and forecasting concerning public-sector and government offices
January 1978 – October 1978
Directorate of Forecasting – co-ordination office
Deputy head
October 1978 – January 1981
Directorate of Forecasting – training centre
Head of training centre
January 1981 – March 1983
Directorate of Forecasting – financial transactions office
In charge of forecasting and follow-up of the Treasury's financial transactions
July 1983 – November 1987
Central procurements committee – Office for economic studies, information technology and training
Head of office, responsible for monitoring IT-related problems and regulations in the sphere of public procurement contracts
November 1987 – June 1990
Information technology and office systems development committee
General rapporteur
June 1990 – October 1992
INSEE (French national institute of statistics and economic surveys) – Equipment and property division
Head of division
October 1992 – December 1996
INSEE – General Secretariat, general services department
Head of the general services department, which is responsible for accounts management, management of the institute's equipment and property and procurement contracts.
Since 1 January 1997
Financial controller, Alsace region
Other experience:
International organisations:
Expert within working groups of an economic policy committee of the EEC Commission, dealing with budgetary polices and concepts (1973-77)
Expert for the Budget Committee of the Council of Europe (1997-1998)
Co-operation assignment:
Short-term consultancy assignment for the Ministry of Finance of Madagascar concerning improvement of budgetary procedures and the introduction of programme budgets
Teaching activities:
CFPP:
- financial legislation and budget law (training courses and preparation for the administrative assistants' recruitment exam)
- rules of public accountancy and the State's chart of accounts (training courses)
- national accounting (training courses and preparation for the ENA (postgraduate civil-service training school)entry exam
IIAP (International Institute of Public Administration):
- modern management methods (RCB (rationalisation des choix budgétaires – planning-programming budgeting system) and economic calculations)
- programme budgets
- public procurement contracts
ENSTA (Ecole nationale supérieure des techniques avancées)
- lecturer in economic policy for 2nd year students
FRANCE
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Alternate member: Verninas Alain
Born on 25 May 1968 at Sucy-en-Brie (94)
French citizen
3 rue Adam
F-94210 La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire
Telephone: 01 43 97 41 25 (home)
01 43 17 66 42 (office)
Training:
1995 post-graduate diploma (DEA) in mathematical economics and econometrics, Paris I university, department of economics
1992 graduated from the national school of statistics and economic management (ENSAE)
Experience:
Since November 1997: Head of "interventions office" (budget directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Management and analysis of international contributions
Monitoring the budgets of international organisations receiving mandatory contributions
Member of the Co-ordinating Committee on Remuneration (CCR)
Management of grants made to associations in connection with action taken in the sphere of international politics
January 1994 to
October 1997: Drafter at the studies office (budget directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- Studies and surveys on the ministry's activities: cultural network, operating expenses, staff numbers and co-operation measures taken by diplomatic and consular officials
- Assessment of public development aid measures taken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
GERMANY
Member: HOLBORN Jost
Date of birth: 12 September 1941
Education:
Graduated from faculty of law, Saarbrücken University in 1969; Second State examination in Law in 1972
Career:
1972-74 Regional finance directorate
1974-81 Federal Ministry of Finance
1981-87 Seconded to the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations
Present position:
Federal Ministry of Finance:
Deputy Head of Section responsible for administrative, budgetary and financial questions relating to international organisations in the Federal Finance Ministry
GERMANY
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Alternate member: KOSCHORRECK Wilfried
Date of birth: 1935, Kiel
Education:
Studied Economics and Law at Innsbruck and Kiel Universities
1959 - graduated from Faculty of Law, Kiel University
Career:
1960-63 Preparatory legal service at High Court of Schleswig-Holstein
1963 Entered the Federal Ministry of Economics in Bonn. Served in the division concerned with customs and trade policy
1967 Charged with special tasks in the field of banking and tax policy
1968-69 Assigned to the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Economic Community in Brussels
1969 Re-transferred to the Federal Ministry of Economics
1970-71 Dealt with tax reform questions
1971 Entered Federal Ministry of Finance, in charge of public relations section
Since 1974 Head of international finance section dealing, inter alia, with
- financial questions of the United Nations system
- financial and budgetary questions of OECD and of its special activities
- financial questions in the context of international commodity agreements
- financial questions of development assistance and international environment policy
ITALY
Member: DE ROSE Claudio
Date of birth: 27 August 1932, Naples
Studies and special fields of study:
- Master of Law degree
- Special courses on international organisations
- Authorised to teach in the legal and economic field
Foreign languages:
- Good knowledge of English
- Working knowledge of French
Professional experience:
- Currently President of the third central judicial appeals Section of the Auditor-General’s Department, dealing with the administrative and accounting liability of administrators and civil servants
Career:
- Senior official in the Ministry of the Interior from 1956 to 1962
- Magistrate in the Auditor-General’s Department since 1963, Section President since 1995
Other national public posts:
- Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1976
- Advisory activities and legal and financial studies for the Ministry of Health until 1985
- Head of the Legislative Office of the Ministry of the Budget and Economic Planning, 1986-1987
- Head of Cabinet at the Ministry of EU Policy Co-ordination from 1 August 1988 to 28 February 1990
- Expert on EU matters for the Office of the Council of Ministers from 1990 to 1992
Posts with international organisations:
- Member of the Board of Auditors of the Council of Europe from 1978 to 1984
- Member of the Budget Committee of the Council of Europe since 1985
- Member of the Italian delegation to the 41st and 42nd General Assemblies of the United Nations, for the Budget Committee
Other activities:
- Professor of Public Accounting and Labour and Trade-Union Law since 1974
- Author of numerous studies and articles in the legal-administrative and legal-accounting fields
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Member: VISLYKH Victor A
Date of birth: 20 October 1945
Nationality: Russian (Russian Federation)
Education: Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy USSR
Has degrees and diplomas, inter alia, in International Law, Business Administration, Institutional Management, Labour Law, Corporate Finance, Linguistics, Oriental Studies.
Languages: English, French, German, Burmese
Places of employment:
1969-74 United Nations Secretariat (P-4)
1974-76 Third Secretary, USSR Foreign Ministry
1976-82 Second Secretary, USSR Permanent Mission to the United Nations
1982-86 Head of Division, USSR Foreign Ministry
1986-91 Senior Counsellor, USSR Permanent Mission to the United Nations
1991-94 Director of Administration (D-2), United Nations Secretariat
Since 1995 Deputy Director-General, Department of International Organisations, Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation
During his career, Mr Victor A VISLYKH represented Russia or served in his personal capacity in the following UN bodies: Fifth Committee of the General Assembly (on administrative and budgetary questions), Committee on Conferences, Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), UN Joint Staff Pension Board, Inter-Agency Committee on Languages and Publications, Group of Eminent Persons on UN Reform, Ad hoc Committee on Financial Emergency. For many years, he has been closely associated with the work of the International Civil Service Commission and the Committee on Contributions.
Recently he has also been actively involved in administrative and budgetary matters of the Council of Europe, OSCE, OPCW, CTBTO and other Europe-based international organisations.
He is married and has two children.
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
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Alternate member: KUZNETSOV Vladimir Vasilyevich
Date of birth: 4 May 1957
Marital Status: Married, two children
Present position: Head of administrative and budgetary division, Department of International Organisations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; deals with budgetary and personnel issues of international organisations.
Education:
1974-79 Linguistics Department, Moscow State University,
Moscow, USSR
1977 State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA
1980 UN Language Training Course, Moscow
1985 Economics Course, Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow
Languages:
English, French
Professional Experience:
1980-84 UN Secretariat, New York
1984-89 Attaché, third, second secretary,
Division of Administrative and Budgetary Matters and UN Secretariat Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1986-89 Member of the USSR delegation to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary Issues); 42nd and 44th sessions of the General Assembly
1990-91 Second secretary, USSR Permanent Mission to the UN; delegate to the Fifth Committee
1992-96 First secretary, counsellor, senior counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
1990-97 Member of the delegations to the 45th - 52nd sessions of the General Assembly; member of the delegation to the 31st – 37th sessions of the Committee for Programme and Coordination; member of the delegation to the sessions of the Committee on Conferences
1994 Member of the Ad-Hoc Intergovernmental Group of Experts Established Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 48.218
1995 - present time Member of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
1996-98 Member of the Russian Federation delegations to the sessions of the Preparatory Commission for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), Programme and Budget Committee of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC)
UNITED KINGDOM
Member: SPEAR Gordon H B
Date of birth: 7 February 1928
Nationality: British
Professional Body: Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (now retired)
Languages: French - fluent
German - fair
Career:
1950-88 United Kingdom National Audit Office
1959-66 NATO Board of Auditors (Paris)
1967-69 UK member, then Chairman of the Board of Auditors for the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (Bangkok)
1968-71 Head of UK National Audit Office for the Far East Region (based in Singapore)
1976-78 UK member and Chairman of the External Audit Board, Western European Union (Paris and London)
1977-81 Deputy Director, responsible for External Audit of World Health Organisation, Pan American Health Organisation, International Labour Organisation, World Meteorological Organisation, UNESCO, GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), UNDP
1981-85 Director of Audit responsible for Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Overseas Aid Administration, British Council (London)
1983-85 UK member and Chairman of the External Audit Commission for the European Space Agency (Paris)
1985-88 UK member (1 year) and Chairman of the International Board of Auditors for NATO. Counsellor in UK delegation (Brussels)
1988-89 UK member of International (4 nations) Commission of Experts to report and advise on budgetary structure and related matters of UNIDO (Vienna)
1989-93 Financial Controller, Western European Union (London)
1989-94 UK member, then Chairman, of the Board of Auditors for the Council of Europe (Strasbourg)
1996-98 Member of the Budget Committee of the Council of Europe
Address:
Gordon H B Spear Esq
11 Beck River Park
Beckenham
Kent
BR3 1HT
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED KINGDOM
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Alternate member: EASTON Frank S G
Date of birth: 17 June 1934
Address: 8 Cameron Road, Bromley, Kent, BR2 9AR
0181 460 6787
Professional address: Room 411A, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street, London, SW1A 2AH
0171 270 3026
Education:
1955-58 - Law Degree, London School of Economics
Career:
1953-55 National Service, Royal Corps of Signals, mostly in Fontainebleau, France in a unit costing military communication exercise
1955-61
1965-71 Inland Revenue, Estate Duty Office; the assessment and collection of estate duty with two years in management services
1961-65 Inland Revenue HQ: management services
1971-85 HM Treasury, Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency monitoring the financial viability of proposed computer projects from a wide range of government departments
1985-94 HM Treasury, Pay Division with responsibility for negotiating annual pay awards and restructuring pay systems with Trade Unions representing the Government's industrial workforce (80,000) the prison service (30,000) and as the UK delegate remuneration packages at the Co-ordinating Committee for Remuneration (CCR) and the European Union. Inter alia this meant the management of consultancy led reviews of pay levels
June 1994 Retired: Treasury Grade 6
1994 to date Adviser to Economic Relations Department, FCO and UK delegate to the CCR
Skills:
Negotiation of change of remuneration packages; reviews of remuneration systems; analytical assessment of costed budgetary cases; goods reporting style; comprehensive knowledge of the CCR; a working knowledge of French.
AUSTRIA
Member: WALDERT Bruno
Date of birth: 22 July 1940
Academic Qualification: Graduate in Law at the University of Vienna
Language Knowledge: English
Career:
1962 Employment at the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
1962-83 Department of International Law, Treaty Section
1983-89 Deputy Head of Budget Department and Head of the section for travelling expenses and removals
Since 1989 July Head of the Budget Department
Since 1990 Chairman of the Vienna Diplomatic Academy Scholarship Foundation
Since 1996 Member of Board of Curators of the Vienna Diplomatic Academy
AUSTRIA
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Alternate Member: WIND Gerhard
Date of birth: 23 February 1942
Language Knowledge: English
Education: Graduation from Secondary School
Career:
1961-69 Federal Chancellery
1970 Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs Protocol Department
1971-73 Austrian Consulate New York Vice-Consul
1973-77 Austrian Consulate Chicago Vice-Consul
1977-82 Austrian Mission to the United Nations New York
Second Secretary (Administration)
1982-84 Austrian Embassy London Counsellor (Administration)
Since 1984 Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs - Budget Department
Since May 1991 Head of controlling section
Duties in present post: Budget planning and execution; co-ordination and control of financial transactions within the ministry; allocation of funds to the missions abroad and supervision of their use; preparation of the annual statement of accounts.
BELGIUM
Member: GEENS Arie
Born in Rijmenam on 2.10.1950
Home address: Watermolenstraat 9, 2820 RIJMENAM - Tel: 015 52 00 66
Administrative address: Délégation permanente de la Belgique auprès du Conseil du Pacte de l'Atlantique Nord
Bd Léopold III, 9, 1100 BRUSSELS
Fax: 02 707 60 90
Tel: 02 707 60 40
Education
Law degree
Previous career
from 12.8.76 to 15.5.77 Trainee administrative secretary at the RTT (Telephone and Telegraph Corporation)
Passed the recruitment exams for the posts of:
Assistant junior auditor – 19.4.77
Chief junior auditor – 29.6.84
Career in the Ministry of Finance (administration of direct contributions) and duties
16.5.1977 Temporary assistant junior auditor
1.7.1977 Trainee assistant junior auditor
1.7.1978 Permanent appointment as assistant junior auditor
1.10.1984 Junior auditor
1.10.1986 Assigned grade of chief junior auditor
1.8.1990 Deputy auditor
1.1.1993 Deputy senior auditor
1.5.1995 Assigned grade of inspector
24.6.1995 Seconded to the Private Office of the Minister of Finance as advisor
18.8.1996 Appointed deputy head of the Private Office of the Minister of Finance
1.7.1997 Appointed senior finance attaché
1.10.1997 Appointed representative of the Minister of Finance to the Belgian Permanent Delegation to NATO
Languages:
Mother tongue - Dutch
French and English
BELGIUM
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Alternate member: VAN NIEUWENBURG Anne
Born in Brussels on 21.5.1952
Home address: rue Cervantès, 56, 1190 BRUSSELS
Home telephone: (02) 345 47 81
Administrative address: Coordination des relations internationales,
Tour Finances, Bd du Jardin Botanique, 50,
25ème étage – boîte 47
1010 BRUSSELS
Fax: (02) 210 66 21
Tel: (02) 210 66 19
Education:
Law degree from the Catholic University of Louvain (July 1974)
Degree in sociology from the Catholic University of Louvain (January 1975)
Master's degree in public management (1990, Solvay Free University of Brussels)
Passed the recruitment exams for the posts of:
- Assistant junior auditor – 17.2.1976
- Deputy inspector of finance – 8.12.1977
Career from March 1975 to October 1975:
Legal expert in a professional federation to be transferred from The Hague to Brussels
Career in the Ministry of Finance:
Temporary contracts from 1.10.1975 to 30.6.1976
Trainee assistant junior auditor – 1.7.1976
Deputy auditor – 1.9.1979
Assigned grade of tax collector A – 1.6.1980
Assigned grade of inspector – 1.5.1981
Auditor – 1.1.1986
Auditor general – 1.12.1994
Duties:
- From 1976 to 1980: General Secretariat, General Services
- Seconded to the Social Welfare Private Office early in 1981 as Budgetary Advisor until the government was overturned on 17.12.1981
- Seconded to the Secretary General's Private Office from 1982 until 1.8.1990
- Responsible, in particular from April 1984, first temporarily and then officially (from August 1990), for managing the former Department for the Co-ordination of International Relations: fiscal and other matters
- Head of department in the General Secretariat from 1.8.1990 to 30.11.1994
- 1.12.1994: appointed to the grade of auditor general, responsible for co-ordinating international relations; seconded back to the Secretary General's Private Office since 6.4.1995
Languages:
Mother tongue - French
Dutch and English
Elementary German
NETHERLANDS
Member: CALS Arnoud
Date of Birth: 7 May 1945
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Training: Doctorate of Law at the Catholic University of Nijmegen
Career:
1971-75 Management co-ordinator at the Ministry of General Affairs
1975-79 Management co-ordinator at the Direction Integration Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1979-83 Inspector of the State's Finances in charge of agricultural affairs, Ministry of Finance
1983-84 Financial Attaché at the Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the European Community
1984- Inspector of the State's Finances in charge of affairs in the field of Foreign Affairs and the European Community
1993- Member and Chairman (1996) of the Budget Committee of the Council of Europe
1994- Member and Chairman (1996) of the Advisory Body on Administrative and Financial Matters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
NETHERLANDS
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Alternate member: VAN EERDE Johan C
Date of Birth: 9 June 1946
Velsen
Education: Felisenum Gymnasium, Velsen
Doctoraal degree in economics, University of Amsterdam
Military Service: Reserve officer, Royal Netherlands Army
Employed by the Government Finance Inspectorate of the Ministry of Finance since 1975.
1975-80 Member of staff of the Cultural Affairs, Recreation and Social Work Section and the Transport, Public Works and Water Management Section
1980-86 Inspector, Education and Science Section
Member of the supervisory committee for the establishment of Maastricht University Hospital
1986-93 Head, Transport, Public Works and Water Management Section
Ministry of Finance project officer for the privatisation of Netherlands Postal and Telecommunications Services Board member, Delft Hydraulics
1993-97 Head, Economic Affairs Section
Board member, Netherlands Aerospace Agency
1997- Head, Section for Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries and European Union Affairs
Member of the Dutch delegation to the EU Budget Council
1998- Chair of the Ministry of Finance collective insurance scheme
NORWAY
Member: HAUFF Thomas
Address: Skogbrynet 3H, 0283, Oslo, Norway
Date of birth: 19 April 1950
Marital Status: Married, two children
Education:
1973 Graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway
1977 Master of Arts, International Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy/Washington D.C., USA
Professional experience:
1974-75 Company secretary, private sector
1977-79 Diplomatic trainee, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1979-81 Attaché/Second Secretary, Norwegian Embassy, Tehran, Iran
1981-84 Second Secretary, Norwegian Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark
1984-86 Executive officer/Senior executive officer, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1986-89 First Secretary, Norwegian Mission to the European Union, Brussels, Belgium
1990-91 Special Adviser to the Director General, Norwegian Trade Council, Oslo, Norway
1991-93 Head of Division, EU/EFTA affairs, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1993-94 Assistant Director General, Section for Export Policies, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1994-96 Minister Counsellor, Norwegian Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden
1996- Deputy Director General, Department for Administrative Affairs, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Other:
1990-91 Member of the Board of the Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Credits
NORWAY
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Alternate member: FREDHEIM Randi
Address: Professor Dahls gate 1, 0355, Oslo
Marital status: Unmarried, no children
Education:
1970 Final examination, Sogndal Upper Secondary School
1971 Hamar College of Business and Economics
1974 Telemark Regional College, 2 year course in economics and administration
1980 Degree in economics from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Work experience:
1974-76 Executive officer, State Educational Loan Fund
1980-81 Research assistant, Department of Fisheries Economics, Norwegian, School of Economics and Business Administration
1981-86 Executive officer/Senior executive officer, Budget Division, Department of Administrative Affairs, Ministry of Trade and Shipping
1986-88 Head of Division, Budget Division, Department of Administrative Affairs, Ministry of Trade and Shipping
1988-90 Head of Division, Budget Division, Department of Administrative Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1990-96 Assistant Director General, Section for Budgeting and Accounts, Department of Administrative Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1997- Deputy Director General, Section for Economic Affairs and Property Administration, Department of Administrative Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Other:
1996-98 Alternate member of the Council of Europe's Budget Committee
ROMANIA
Member: GHITA Carmen
Date of birth: 15 September 1957
Bucharest
Nationality: Romanian
Marital Status: Married, two children
Home address: 13 Vladeasa Street, BI C32, app. 64, quarter 6, Bucharest
Home phone: + 40 1 726 9123
Office address: Ministry of Finance-General Directorate for International Financial Relations, 17 Apolodor Street, quarter 5, Bucharest
Office phone: + 40 1 311 2376 or + 40 1 410 3400, extension 1192 or 1321
Education:
University degrees:
1976-80 Master in International Economic Relationships within the Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest
Other relevant post-graduate courses:
May 9 - June 6 1998 Course for Civil Works Procurement and Management, held in Turin (Italy) by the World Bank
November 1996 Export Credits and Banking, held in USA by US Department of Agriculture (Cochran Fellowship Program)
September 1996 Business Opportunities held in Bucharest by the World Bank and National Bank of Romania
January - May 1996 English Business and Language of Meetings and Negotiations, held in Bucharest by USIS (United States Information Service)
September 1994 -
June 1995 English Business Language and Financial Case Analysis, held in Bucharest by USIS (USA)
February - March 1995 Fiscal and Financial System in Japan, held in Tokyo by JICA (Japan International Co-operation Agency)
May - June 1994 Micro and Macroeconomics, held in Sophia (Bulgaria) by EDI World Bank
October 1993 Procurement Seminar, held in Bucharest by Crown Agents (UK)
October 1992 - June 1993 Commercial and Economic French Language, held in Bucharest, by the Chamber of Trade and Industry from Paris
October 1991 - June 1992 Commercial and Economic French Language, held in Bucharest, by the Chamber of Trade and Industry from Paris
September 1984 -
September 1985 Course for Analyst Programmer, held in Bucharest by ICI (Central Institue for Informatics)
Professional activity:
Present position Since August 1998, Chief of Division for the Social Sector, within the Ministry of Finance, General Directorate for International Financial Relations
Previous positions:
August 1992 - June 1992 Senior Adviser, Area Manager within the Ministry of Finance, General Directorate for International Financial Relations
October 1980 - June 1992 Junior and Senior Economist within Electrotechnica S.A. (State ownership enterprise)
Language skills:
Mother tongue - Romanian
English - Very well, negotiations level
French - Very well, negotiations level
Computer skills:
Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point
ROMANIA
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Alternate Member: BODNAR Cristina Mirela
Date of birth: 8 March 1962
Bucharest, Romania
Civil Status: Divorced, one son - 11 years old
Address: Bd. Corneliu Coposu 4, Bloc 105A, SC.4, App. 105, Sector 3, Bucharest
Home Tel + 40 1 323 8657 and + 40 1 320 0682
Office + 40 1 311 2376
Fax + 40 1 312 6792
Academic degrees:
Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty for Finance and Accounting, 1984
Post-graduate degrees:
Master of Arts in European Studies, College of Europe, Brugges, Belgium, 1994
Student for PH.D - Academy for Economic Studies since 1997
Present position:
Since 1996 - Head of Division, Directorate for International Financial Relations, Ministry of Finance
Previous positions:
1991-96 Senior Advisor, Directorate for International Financial Relations, Ministry of Finance
1990-91 Loan Officer, Romanian Commercial Bank, Bucharest Branch
1986-90 Economist, Entreprise for Computer Service, Bucharest
1984-86 Economist, Electronica Entreprise, Bucharest
Languages:
English: Very well, negotiations level
French: Very well, negotiations level
Italian: Well
Spanish: Fair
PC Skills:
Word for Windows
Excel
SPAIN
Member: DE LA FUENTE SANTORCUATO Ana María
Date of birth: 26 February 1950
Current post:
Deputy Director General responsible for the Community Budget (DGP-MEH)
Education:
Master's degree in economic sciences, University of Barcelona, 1973
Languages: French and English
Official of the Corps of Statisticians at the National Statistics Institute, 1975
Government service posts held (budgetary sphere):
In the Directorate General for the Budget of the Ministry for Finance:
a) Sub-Directorate General for Budget Policy:
- Budget co-ordination analyst (July 1987 - January 1988)
b) Sub-Directorate General for the Community Budget:
- Technical adviser (February 1988 - March 1998)
- Assistant Deputy Director General (April 1989 - July 1990)
- Deputy Director General (since July 1990)
Professional experience in the budgetary sphere
- Spanish representative on the Advisory Committee on the Communities' Own Resources, sub-groups dealing with forecasting and the VAT base, European Commission working groups which analyse the information provided by member Sates on own resources to be included in the Community budget
- Spain's spokesperson, during its Presidency of the Council of the European Union, for the Budget Committee, a working group of the Council of the European Union which discusses appropriations in the general budget of the European Communities
- Spanish alternate member of the Council of Europe Budget Committee for the period 1993-95, and full member from 1996-98
- Participation in the preparation of the Spanish state's general budgets where these relate to the financial relations between Spain and the European Communities
SPAIN
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Alternate member: GONZALEZ GOMEZ Alvaro
Occupation: Civil servant in the Higher Industrial Engineering corps
Date of birth: 6 July 1950
Education:
Advanced baccalauréat French/Spanish (Lycée Français, Madrid)
Higher diploma in industrial engineering, ETDIM, 1969-75
Civil servant attached to the Technical Corps, Intermediate level, of the autonomous departments of the Ministry for Industry and Energy (recruited in 1982 on the basis of an open competitive examination)
Civil servant at the Industrial Engineering Corps of the Ministry for Industry and Energy (1986, open competitive examination)
Government service posts held (budgetary sphere):
General Directorate for the Budget, Ministry for Finance:
- Budget co-ordination analyst (February 1988-90)
- Assistant Deputy Director General responsible for the Community Budget since July 1990
Professional experience in the budgetary sphere:
- Participation in the preparation of the general budget of the European Union and attendance at meetings of the Budget Committee of the Council. In recent years, in particular, participation in the specific meetings held to consider the budgets of the Ispra and Karlsruhe Joint Research Centres
- Participation in the preparation of Section 34 of the general budgets of the State (financial relations with the European Communities)
- Representative of Spain on the Advisory Committee on the Communities' Own Resources, which analyses member States' contributions to resources based on VAT
- Preparation of Spain's VAT base which serves as the criterion for calculating the Spanish contribution, derived from VAT resources, to the European Union's
- Attendance as Spanish representative at meetings of the ACP-FIN group of the Council of the European Union, which adopts the annual budget of the European Development Fund, as well as Spain's quarterly contributions to the Fund
- Co-ordinator of the Directorate General of the Budgets in the inter-ministerial Communities committees on the European Development Fund, on assistance to the east European countries and on the future of the ECSC
- Secretary to the inter-ministerial committee which deals with the group of funds (ERDF, ESF, FEOGA Guarantee, FEOGA Guidance, FIFG, Cohesion Fund and ECSC returns)
- Alternate member of the Budget Committee of the Council of Europe