On 15 April 2020, the Commission submitted to the Council draft amending budget (DAB) No 3 to the general budget for 2020 concerning the budgeting of the surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2019.
The implementation of the budget year 2019 shows a surplus of EUR 3 218.37 million resulting from:
A positive outturn in the revenue part of the budget (+EUR 2 414.77 million) of which:
An under-implementation on the expenditure side of the budget (-EUR 803.60 million), notably of:
The budgeting of this surplus will diminish accordingly the global contribution of the 27 Member States and the United Kingdom to the financing of the EU budget in 2020.
On 6 May 2020, the Council adopted its position on DAB No 3 to the general budget for 2020 as set out in the technical annex to the Council draft amending budget No 3/2020.