Amending budget 4/2022: update of revenue (own resources) and other technical adjustments

2022/0211(BUD)

The Council adopted its position on the draft amending budget No 4 to the general budget for 2022: entering the surplus of the financial year 2021.

As a reminder, on 1 July 2022, the Commission submitted to the Council draft amending budget (DAB) No 4 to the general budget for 2022 which aims to update the revenue side of the budget to take account of the latest developments: (i) the updated own resources forecasts for the budget 2022 agreed by the Advisory Committee on Own Resources (ACOR) on 23 May 2022; (ii) to update other revenues such as the United Kingdom contribution, fines and other.

In addition, DAB No 4/2022 includes two specific adjustments related to expenditure:

- adjustment of the budgetary nomenclature following the new possibilities for Member States to transfer resources of their initial European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Cohesion Fund (CF), European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) allocations to the REPowerEU chapter of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) following the Commission proposal for REPowerEU on 18 May 2022;

- the additional staff requested for Eurojust following the extension of its mandate to collect and preserve war crime evidence.

The related appropriations in 2022 will be financed through internal redeployment, and therefore no additional financing is required for this purpose.

On 20 September 2022, the Council adopted its position on DAB No 4 to the general budget for 2022 as set out in the technical annex to its explanatory memorandum.