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Amending budget 2/2017: surplus of the financial year 2016

2017/2061(BUD)

On 12 April 2017, the Commission submitted to the Council draft amending budget (DAB) No 2 to the general budget for 2017 concerning the budgeting of the surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2016.

The implementation of the budget year 2016 shows a surplus of EUR 6 404 567 996.26 resulting from:

a) a positive outturn in income part of the budget (+ EUR 1 688 million), of which:

  • Title 1 (Own resources): - EUR 1 511 million
  • Title 3 (Surpluses, balances and adjustments): + EUR 8 million
  • Title 7 (Interest on late payments and fines): + EUR 3 052 million
  • Other titles: + EUR 138 million

b) an under-implementation on expenditure side of the budget (+ EUR 4 889 million), notably of:

  • appropriations authorised in the 2016 budget (Commission): + EUR 4 825 million
  • appropriations carried over from 2015 (Commission): + EUR 28 million
  • appropriations authorised in 2016 and carried over from 2015 (Other institutions): + EUR 35 million

c) a negative balance of currency exchange (- EUR 173 million).

The budgeting of this surplus will diminish accordingly the global contribution of Member States to the financing of the EU budget in 2017.

On 8 June 2017, the Council adopted its position on DAB No 2 to the general budget for 2017 as set out in the annex to the explanatory memorandum to the Council's position on the draft amending budget (see Doc. Council 9437/17).