On 30 September 2016, the Commission submitted to the
Council draft amending budget (DAB) No 4/2016 requesting
modifications on the expenditure and revenue side of the 2016
budget.
With regard to the expenditure side, the
following modifications are proposed:
- to decrease payment appropriations (p/a) by -EUR 7
284.3 million mostly under sub-heading 1b, and to a lesser extent
under headings 2 and 3 due to delays in the implementation of the
2014-2020 programmes;
- to decrease commitment appropriations (c/a) by -EUR
14.7 million under heading 2 as a result of the latest needs
assessment;
- to frontload EUR 73.9 million in c/a from Financial
Instruments under CEF Energy to the European Fund for Strategic
Investments (EFSI), with a corresponding compensation in
2018;
- to increase c/a by +EUR 250 million and p/a by +EUR 10
million under heading 3, notably for the Emergency Support
Instrument within the Union, the Asylum, Migration and Integration
Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF). After taking into
account a redeployment of EUR 9.9 million from the European
Medicines Agency (EMA), due to the changes in the EUR/GBP exchange
rate, the Commission proposes to finance the remaining additional
c/a under heading 3 through a mobilisation of the Contingency
Margin for an amount of EUR 240.1 million to be fully offset in the
same year against the margin under heading 5;
- to frontload 50 posts for temporary agents out of the
130 posts requested for the year 2017 for FRONTEX due to the
revised mandate of the agency.
As regards revenue, the main changes on the
revenue side proposed in this DAB concern the revision of the
forecast of Traditional Own Resources (i.e. customs duties and
sugar levies), value added tax (VAT) and gross national income
(GNI) bases, and the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections and
their financing, which affects the distribution of own resources
contributions from Member States to the EU budget.
The net impact of this DAB on the expenditure side of
the 2016 budget is an increase of +EUR 225.4 million in c/a and
a decrease of -EUR 7 274.3 million in p/a, thus lowering by the
same amount Member States' contributions for the financial year
2016 (surplus).
On 8 November 2016, the Council adopted its position
on DAB No 6 to the general budget for 2016 as set out in the annex
to the DAB 6/2016 (refer
to the annex to the Council doc. 13583/2016).