Amending budget 6/2015: own resources, Union trust funds for external action, BEREC Office

The European Parliament adopted by 600 votes to 43, with 2 abstentions, a resolution on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 6/2015 of the European Union for the financial year 2015, Own Resources, Union Trust Funds for External Action, Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications.

Parliament recalled that this amending budget concerns:

• a revision of the forecast of Traditional Own Resources, VAT and GNI bases;
• the budgeting of the relevant corrections concerning the United Kingdom, as well as their financing, thereby resulting in a change in the distribution between Member States of their contribution to the Union budget.

It also covers the creation of two new budget items for support expenditure for trust funds managed by the European Commission, in policy areas "Development and Cooperation" and "Enlargement", both with a token entry (p.m.) as well as a change to the establishment plan of the BEREC Office with no changes to the overall number of posts or to its budget.

An amending budget without any implications on the 2015 budget: Parliament noted that Draft amending budget No 6/2015, in all its elements, has no impact on the expenditure side of the 2015 budget and that its impact on the revenue side is a change in the distribution between Member States' contributions only.

Therefore, the European Parliament approved, without amendment, the Council position on Draft amending budget No 6/2015.