The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the amended proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 on budgetary discipline and sound financial management as regards the multiannual financial framework.
In doing so, Parliament approved the position of its Budgets Committee and the report drafted by Reimer BÖGE (EPP-ED, DE).
Overall, Parliament approved the conclusions of the Conciliation committee of 23 November 2007 (see BUD/2007/2017). It stressed that the agreement reached on the revision of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) is the result of a highly successful interinstitutional cooperation and a politically relevant step towards the development of the European satellite radio navigation programme. It welcomed the use of the instruments provided for by points 21, 22 and 23 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 with regard to the first revision of the financial framework since 1994.
At the conciliation meeting the two arms of the budgetary authority agreed to provide part of the financing required for the European Global Navigation Satellite System GNSS programmes (EGNOS – GALILEO) by a revision of the multiannual financial framework 2007–2013, so as to raise the ceilings for commitment appropriations under sub-Heading 1a for the years 2008 to 2013 by an amount of EUR 1 600 million in current prices. This raising will be offset by lowering the ceiling for commitment appropriations under Heading 2 for the year 2007 by the same amount.
Parliament recalled that following the agreement on the MFF 2007-2013 and the related Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006, a number of deficits were left unsolved in the outcome of the negotiations.