PURPOSE: presentation of draft amending budget (DAB)
No 4/2014 aiming to decrease the budgetary appropriations for the
European Data Protection Supervisor.
CONTENT: Draft Amending Budget (DAB) No 4 for the year
2014 aims to budget the surplus resulting from the implementation
of the budget year 2013. It focuses in particular on the following
points:
- a revision of the forecast of Traditional Own
Resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties and sugar sector levies), VAT
and GNI bases, the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well
as their financing resulting in a change in the distribution
between Member States of their own resources contributions to the
EU budget;
- a revision of the forecast of other revenue, arising
from a series of fines that have become definitive and can
therefore be budgeted;
- the reduction of the budgetary appropriations,
both commitments and payments by EUR 248 460 for the European Data
Protection Supervisor, due to the postponement of the appointment
of the new European Data Protection Supervisor and Assistant
European Data Protection Supervisor;
- the modification of budget article 13 03 64 European
Regional Development Fund (ERDF) - European territorial cooperation
into three separate budget items, to reflect the final adoption of
the related legal base;
- the creation of a new budget article 05 03 09
Reimbursement of direct aids in relation to financial discipline,
with a 'p.m.'; and the replacement of the dash '–' for payment
appropriations on budget item 11 06 77 03 Preparatory action –
Maritime policy by a 'p.m.'
The overall impact in terms of expenditure, is a
reduction of EUR 248 460 for both commitment and payment
appropriations in heading 5.
The overall impact in terms of revenue, is a
substantial decrease in the requirements for Own Resources by
EUR 2 059 million, which is mainly due to the budgeting of
fines and interests. In addition, the distribution by Member State
is adjusted.