PURPOSE : to present the preliminary draft amending budget (PDAB) No 4 to the general budget 2006.
CONTENT : this PDAB 4/2006 covers the following points:
- the revision of the forecast of traditional own resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties, agricultural duties and sugar levies), VAT and GNI bases and the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing, resulting in a change in the distribution between Member States of their own resources contributions to the EU budget;
- Article 7 of Council Decision 2000/597/EC, Euratom on the system of the European Communities' own resources states that "surplus from the Guarantee Fund arising from external measures, transferred to the revenue account in the budget, shall be regarded as constituting own resources ". Thus in addition to the revision of the forecasts of own resources, this PDAB enters the surplus in the general budget, at 31 December 2005, from the Guarantee Fund for external measures. This amounts to EUR 92 730 000.