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.