PURPOSE: presentation of the Draft Amending Budget
(DAB) No 6 for the year 2014.
CONTENT: DAB No 6 for the year 2014 concerns the
following:
- a revision of the forecast of Traditional Own
Resources (customs duties), VAT and GNI own resources
balances (the Commission proposes to increase Traditional Own
Resources (TOR) by EUR 420 million in chapter 12 of revenue to
reflect the trend in custom duties made available to the budget up
to now. It also proposes to enter a negative amount of EUR 285
million for the VAT balances and a positive amount of EUR 9 813
million for the GNI balances, having a global impact of EUR 9
528 million, which reduces the Member States' GNI contributions
accordingly);
- a reduction in the budgetary appropriations
related to the European Maritime and Fisheries
Fund and the reserve for Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
Agreements, for a total amount of EUR 76.3 million in commitment
appropriations and EUR 6.2 million in payment appropriations.
It is proposed to redeploy the related payment appropriations to
the Emergency Aid Reserve;
- an increase in the budgetary appropriations, both
commitments and payments of EUR 93 500 for the European
Ombudsman, in order to ensure that
all salary remunerations due in 2014 can be paid by the end of the
year.
The overall impact in terms of expenditure, is a
decrease of EUR 76.2 million commitment appropriations, and an
increase of EUR 93 500 for payment appropriations.
The overall impact in terms of revenue, is a
decrease in the requirements for Own Resources of EUR
9 527.7 million.
The distribution by Member State is adjusted
accordingly.