Amending budget 8/2009: bluetongue, High Flux Reactor, Europol, Eurojust, OLAF

2009/2050(BUD)

PURPOSE: to present Preliminary Draft Amending Budget (PDAB) 8/2009.

CONTENT: PDAB No 8 for the year 2009 covers the following elements:

  • bluetongue disease: an increase of EUR 49 340 000 in commitment appropriations for budget item 17 04 01 01 Animal disease eradication and monitoring programmes and monitoring of the physical conditions of animals that could pose a public health risk linked to an external factor – New measures. This increase is intended to strengthen the budget for the eradication of bluetongue disease;
  • supplementary high-flux reactor programmes: the creation of budget item 10 04 04 02 Operation of the high-flux reactor (HFR) — Supplementary HFR programmes (2009 to 2011), with a "p.m.". In this supplementary programme it is indicated that the contribution will come from three participating Member States, namely The Netherlands, France and Belgium, as the financial contributions made to the general budget of the European Union by way of assigned revenue. The Commission will not contribute to the operational cost of the HFR with funds from its budget. However, the Commission needs to create an "entry point" for this programme with a token entry "p.m." on the new budget item 10 04 04 02 Operation of the high-flux reactor (HFR) — Supplementary HFR programmes (2009 to 2011);
  • Europol: the creation of budget item 18 05 02 03 European Police Office – transition costs, to be endowed with an amount of EUR 1 250 000 in commitment and payment appropriations. The financing of these costs will have no impact on the margin of heading 3a, since both commitment and payment appropriations will be redeployed from article 18 05 09 Prevention of and fight against crime;
  • Eurojust: a reinforcement of the Community subsidy to Eurojust by EUR 3 900 000, of which it is proposed that EUR 1 600 000 be covered by assigned revenue stemming from the recovery of the EUROJUST surplus for the financial year 2008. Thus, the request for fresh commitment appropriations in this amending budget amounts to EUR 2 300 000. The corresponding payment appropriations will come from article 18 06 07 Civil Justice programme. This will bring the Community subsidy for 2009 from EUR 22.5 million to EUR 26.4 million. The proposed reinforcement is broken down by Title in the proposal;
  • OLAF: modifications to the establishment plan of OLAF, without additional financial provisions.

The net financial impact of this amending budget is EUR 51 640 000 in fresh commitments, with no new request for payment appropriations.