Amending budget 6/2011: revenue, integrated maritime policy, Greece: ESF, Palestine
PURPOSE: definitive adoption of amending budget No 6 of the European Union for the financial year 2011.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2012/30/EU, Euratom.
CONTENT: the European Parliament definitively adopted amending budget No 6/2011 of the European Union in accordance with its resolution of 1 December 2011 (please refer to the summary of the resolution).
This amending budget is the result of budgetary negotiations carried out in the framework of the conciliation committee on 18/19 November 2011. The Committee, in the framework of the agreement on joint text concerning the budget for 2012, reached a political agreement on DAB No 6/2011 with the following result:
Commitment appropriations (in EUR million):
- ESF - Operational technical assistance +3.3 +3.3
- ENPI - Palestine, MEPP, UNRWA: +100.0
- Banana Accompanying Measures : +13.4
Sub-total reinforcements +116.7 million.
- Macro financial assistance: -104.4
- International agricultural agreements: -0.1
- Multilateral and international climate agreements: -0.2
- International organisations customs and tax: -0.1
- Third countries education and vocational training: -6.3
- FAO contribution: -0.3
- Commodities agreements: -2.0
- Sub-total reductions: -113.4 million.
Total net impact: EUR +3.3 million.
Payment appropriations (in EUR million):
- ESF – Convergence: +226.35
- ESF - Regional Competitiveness: +226.35
- ESF - Operational technical assistance: +0.3
- Cooperation - Nanosciences, nanotechnologies: +82.0
- Cooperation - ICTs : +60.0
Sub-total reinforcements: +595.0 million.
Rural Development: -395.0
Sub-total reductions: -395.0 million.
Total impact: +200 million (against EUR 550.3 million initially proposed by the Commission).
In conclusion, the combined effect of DAB No 6/2011, taking into account the new amount of +EUR 200 million net increase in p/a, is a reduction of Member States' contributions to the 2011 budget by EUR 1 076.9 million.