On 3 July, the
Commission forwarded to the Council preliminary draft amending budget (PDAB)
No. 8 to the general budget for 2009, which contains the following elements:
- increase of
EUR 49 340 000 in commitment appropriations for 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" in order to finance an emergency
vaccination campaign to rapidly prevent the spread of the bluetongue
disease outbreaks occurred since 2006;
- the creation
of item 10 04 04 02 "Operation of the high-flux reactor (HFR) - Supplementary
HFR programmes (2009 to 2011) with a "p.m." for c/a and p/a as
a budgetary structure for the contributions of the Member States
participating in the research programme in accordance with Council
Decision 2009/410/Euratom on the adoption of a supplementary research
programme to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre for the
European Atomic Energy Community;
- reinforcement
of the Community subsidy to EUROJUST by an amount of EUR 3 900 000 in
c/a and p/a. The amount of EUR 1 600 000 in c/a is covered by assigned revenue
originating from the EUROJUST surplus from 2008 and the remaining commitments
of EUR 2 300 000 are deducted from the margin of heading 3a, of which EUR
1 390 000 is entered in item 18 06 04 01 and EUR 910 000 in item 18 06
04 02. The corresponding amounts in p/a are drawn from the line 18 06 07
"Civil justice" by an internal transfer and entered in items
18 06 04 01 and 18 06 04 02;
- the creation
of item 18 05 02 03 "European Police Office - Transition
costs" with an amount of EUR 1 250 000 in c/a and p/a as a
budgetary structure for a part of the expenditure to be funded from the
Community budget in accordance with the Council Decision No 2009/371/JHA
of 6 April 2009 establishing the European Police Office (Europol). The
commitments and payments are mobilised from the line 18 05 09 "Prevention
of and fight against crime" by an internal transfer;
- temporary
modification of the establishment plan of OLAF by increasing the number of
AD 11 posts by 12 in order to allow for OLAF to fill these posts with
successful candidates from external competitions which are currently
OLAF temporary agents. The purpose of this budgetary neutral adaptation
of OLAF's establishment plan, which will disappear in the 2010 budget,
is to avoid massive departures and loss of important know-how among the
OLAF staff.
The changes
proposed in PDAB No. 8/2009 do not affect the general statement of revenue
for the 2009 budget.
On 7 September
2009, the Council established draft amending budget No. 8 for the financial year
2009, as submitted by the Commission in its preliminary draft amending budget
No. 8 and as set out in the technical annex to the explanatory memorandum of
this text (see Council Doc. 12952/09 ADD 1).