PURPOSE: definitive adoption of Amending budget No
4/2016.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Definitive adoption (EU, Euratom)
2017/303 of Amending budget No 4 of the European Union for the
financial year 2016.
CONTENT: the European Parliament adopted the amending
budget 4/2016 of the European Union, in accordance with its
resolution of 1 December 2016 (refer to the summary of the
resolution).
In brief, Amending Budget No 4/2016 (DAB 4/2016)
concerns the follow:
Expenditure:
- 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;
- decrease commitment appropriations (c/a) by EUR 14.7
million under heading 2 as a result
of the latest needs assessment;
- 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;
- 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;
- frontload 50 posts for temporary agents
for the year 2017 for the European
Border and Coast Guard Agency replacing FRONTEX.
Revenue side: the AB
includes adjustments linked to the revision of the forecast of
Traditional Own Resources (i.e. customs duties and sugar sector
levies), value-added tax (VAT) and gross national income (GNI)
bases, and the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections and their
financing, which has an impact on the distribution of Member
States' contributions to the EU budget from own
resources.
The net impact of AB 4/2014 on the expenditure side of
the 2016 budget is an increase of EUR 225.4 million in
commitment appropriations and a decrease of EUR 7 274.3
million in payment appropriations, thereby reducing the Member
States' contributions for the financial year 2016 (surplus) by an
equivalent amount.