PURPOSE : to present the Preliminary Draft Budget (PDB) of the European Communities for the year 2007 (Budget “other sections”).
CONTENT : the European Commission has presented its PDB 2007 including the provisional amounts for all the other institutions of the Union (except Section III-Commission).
The PDB 2007 comprises the following budgetary provisions: EUR 3 270 million for administrative expenditure of the Commission and EUR 2 643 million for the other institutions.
For Heading 5, the total for commitment and payments increase by 6 % to EUR 7 002,3 million and EUR 7 002,2 million, respectively which represents and an increase of EUR 399 million compared to 2006.
The margin under this heading amounts to EUR 112.7 million.
Heading 5 of the PDB 2007 can broken down as follows:
- 46.7% for the Commission (excluding pensions), that is EUR 3 270 million;
- 37.7% : for the other institutions, that is EUR 2 643 million including:
§ EuropeanParliament: EUR 1 378 million;
§ Council: EUR 613 million;
§ CourtofJustice: EUR 282.7 million;
§ CourtofAuditors: EUR 122.5 million;
§ EconomicandSocialCommittee: EUR 115.9 million;
§ CommitteeoftheRegions: EUR 69.4 million;
§ EuropeanOmbudsman: EUR 8.3 million;
§ EuropeanData-protection supervisor: EUR 5 million.
- 13.7% : for pensions (all institutions), that is EUR 960 million;
- 1.9% : for expenditure relating to European schools, that is EUR 130 million.
Total 7 002 million for heading 5.
Lastly, it should be noted that in 2007, the evolution of posts is again strongly influenced by the needs of enlargement. In total 853 posts are requested by the Commission, complemented by 50 external staff. Added together, this request represents an increase of 4 % in the Commission staff.