87. Notes that for the first time the Commission has cut the budgetary requests of almost all the agencies, which were in line with the fi
nancial programming amounts overall; this includes those agencies whose tasks fall under Parliament's priorities, involvin
g a total amount of some EUR 44 million; recalls that a careful analysis of the methodology, rationale and possible impact of such cuts is necessary with regard to several resolutions, the most recent being the 2010 discharge, which stress that the review of the agencies by the
...[+++] IWG should lead to structural improvements in their impact and cost-efficiency, inter alia by identifying areas of duplication and overlap amongst existing agencies; stresses once more that the EU agencies‘ budget allocations are far from consisting of administrative expenditure alone, but, rather, contribute to achieving the Europe 2020 goals and the EU’s objectives in general, while aiming at making savings at national level, as decided by the legislative authority;