PURPOSE: presentation of Draft Amending
Budget (DAB) No 6 for the year 2011 – Commission.
CONTENT: Draft Amending Budget (DAB) No 6/2011
covers the following:
- the usual update in the forecast of revenue after the
revision of the forecasts of own resources and other revenue;
- the creation of a new budget line: 11 09 05 — Programme
to support the further development of an Integrated Maritime Policy
(IMP), with commitment appropriations of EUR 23.14 million
entered in reserve, pending adoption of the legal base. These commitment
appropriations are reallocated from other lines withing Heading 2;
- the reallocation of EUR 60 million in commitment
appropriations within Heading 4 EU as a Global Player, in favour of
budget item 19 08 01 02 — European Neighbourhood and Partnership
financial assistance to Palestine, the peace process and UNRWA (United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near
East). This amount is proposed as a frontloading of appropriations to
cover expenditure in the year 2012;
- a reinforcement of budget article 04 02
20 European Social Fund - Operational technical assistance by EUR
3.25 million to provide specific expertise in support of the
Administrative Reform Operational Programme in the field of tax administration
in Greece. Payment appropriations of EUR 300 000 are also requested;
- an increase of payment appropriations of EUR 550
million to meet outstanding needs which remain after the
"Global Transfer". EUR 142 million of this
amount will be used to increase payments in Heading 1a Competitiveness
for Growth and Employment, and the remaining EUR 408 million will be
reallocated to Heading 1b Cohesion for Growth and Employment;
- a token ("p.m.") decrease of payment
appropriations in 05 04 05 01 — Rural development programmes to take
into account the possible difference between the payment forecasts from
the Member States, as updated in September 2011, and the declaration of
payments that will be submitted in November 2011. This is entered
tentatively and, once declarations from Member States are received, may
be revised to meet part of the needs in Heading 1b Cohesion for Growth
and Employment.
To summarise, the net effect of this DAB
No 6/2011 is an increase in commitment appropriations by EUR 3.25 million
and an increase in payment appropriations by EUR 550.3 million in Headings 1a
and 1b. However, due to the VAT and GNI balances of previous years to be
cashed in according to Regulation (EC, EURATOM) No 1150/2000 and to the
increase in other revenue, namely EUR 435 million in fines, total revenue
increases EUR 1 276.9 million leading to a decrease in the budgeted
Member States' GNI-based contributions for 2011 of EUR 726.6 million.