PURPOSE: to present the preliminary draft amending budget 3/2009 on the European Union’s own resources.
CONTENT: this Preliminary Draft Amending Budget No 3 to the Budget for 2009 (PDAB 3/2009) covers the implementation of the new Own Resources Decision No 2007/436/EC, Euratom (hereafter, ORD 2007), following the entry into force of ORD 2007 on 1 March 2009.
To recall, this decision has many implications on the Union’s budget such as the revision of the uniform rate of call of the VAT-based resource which was fixed at 0.30% from 1 January 2007. However, according to this decision, for the period 2007-2013, the rate of call of the VAT-based own resource for Austria has been fixed at 0.225%, for Germany at 0.15% and for the Netherlands and Sweden at 0.10%.
PDAB 3/2009 takes into account the retroactive effect of ORD 2007 from 1 January 2007 onwards and therefore includes the adjustments for the financial years 2007, 2008 and 2009 related to the new provisions introduced by ORD 2007.
This PDAB also takes account of the gross reduction for the Netherlands and Sweden (this reduction is to be financed by all Member States which equals respectively EUR 605 million and EUR 150 million in 2004 prices, adjusted to current prices).
The present PDAB 3/2009 concerns the revised calculation of the 2007 and 2008 UK corrections and takes account of technical amendments related to the implementation of ORD 2007.
The following summary table shows per year and per Member State the global impact of the implementation of ORD 2007 for financial years 2007, 2008 and 2009. This global impact is the result of the sum of the amendments related to the new uniform rate of call of the VAT-based own resource, to the gross reduction in the annual GNI-based contributions for the Netherlands and Sweden, to the revised calculation of the UK correction and to the GNI-based own resource. The new amounts are as follows:
Total: EUR 114 736 339 840.