PURPOSE: to amend Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 on the European statistical programme 2013-17 in regard to its financial allocation.
PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.
ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.
BACKGROUND: Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council on the European statistical programme 2013-2017 provides the framework and defines the objectives and outputs for the production, development and dissemination of European statistics for the period from 2013 to 2017.
In its resolution of 13 June 2012 on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and own resources, the European Parliament stressed that the negotiations on the legislative proposals relating to the multiannual programmes would be finalised once an agreement on their financial envelopes had been reached.
This is why Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 only sets the financial envelope for 2013, covered by the programming period 2007-2013, and invites the Commission to make a legislative proposal introducing the financial allocation for the period 2014-2017 to the European Parliament and the Council no later than three months after the adoption of the MFF for the years 2014-2020.
IMPACT ASSESSMENT: an impact assessment was conducted for the proposal for a Regulation on the European statistical programme 2013-17, which included the budget for 2014-2017.
LEGAL BASIS: Article 338(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
CONTENT: this proposal to amend Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 determines the financial allocation for the four years covered by the European statistical programme 2013-2017 that fall under the programming period 2014 to 2020 of the MFF.
The other provisions of the Regulation on the European Statistical programme 2013-2017 remain unchanged, in particular in regard to the objectives pursued and the annex, which defines statistical outputs for the five years covered.
BUDGETARY IMPLICATION: since the specific objectives and statistical outputs for the five-year period are set in the Regulation, the amount of budget proposed for the period from 2014 to 2017 is EUR 234.8 million, covered by the programming period 2014-2020.