The European Parliament adopted by 399 votes to 138, with 61 abstentions, in the framework of a special legislative procedure (consultation), a legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision amending Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053 on the system of own resources of the European Union.
The European Parliament approved the Commission proposal as amended below.
Implementation of the roadmapwith a view to establishing new own resources
Members wish to recall that this amended Decision constitutes a further important step, for the implementation of a roadmap for the introduction of new own resources. It should make sure that the revenue from a basket of new income sources should become available and should be sufficient for the payment of the interest and the principal of NGEU debts and that the distributive financial implications of the basket are acceptable to all Member States.
Parliament stressed that with the proceeds of the new own resources introduced by this amended decision, the Union budget can be financed reliably on a long-term basis and accommodate the costs of the repayment of the European Union Recovery Instrument and new Union priorities while avoiding reductions of existing Union programmes and policies.
The implementation of the Roadmap in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 (IIA) should be completed by future reforms that would replace the transitional solution of the statistics-based national contribution on corporate profits into a more genuine, tax-based own resource as soon as the necessary directives or Union-wide harmonisation frameworks on corporate taxation are in place.
Lump sum reductions
The proposed amended Decision provides that for the period 2021-2027, the following Member States should benefit from a gross reduction in their annual GNI-based contributions in the amount of EUR 565 million for Austria, EUR 377 million for Denmark, EUR 3 671 million for Germany, EUR 1 921 million for the Netherlands and EUR 1 069 million for Sweden. Those amounts should be measured in 2020 prices and adjusted to current prices on the basis of a fixed deflator of 2% per year. Those gross reductions should be financed by all Member States.