Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument for immediate budgetary measures under the European Agenda on Migration

Council Regulation (EU, EURATOM) No 1311/2013 of 2 December 2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014-2020 allows for the mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument to allow the financing of clearly identified expenditure which could not be financed within the limits of the ceilings available for one or more headings of the multiannual financial framework.

After having examined all possibilities for re-allocating appropriations and exhausted any unallocated margin under the expenditure heading Security and Citizenship, the Commission proposes to mobilise the Flexibility Instrument. This mobilisation concerns an amount of €66.1 million beyond the ceiling of heading 3 of the multiannual financial framework, and is intended to to finance support for measures for managing the refugee crisis. The payment appropriations corresponding to the proposed mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument are €52.9 million in 2016 and €13.2 million in 2017.

EUR-Lex: COM(2015)486: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2015:486:FIN

ESO: Background information: Managing the Refugee Crisis: Budgetary measures under the European Agenda on Migration http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-managing-the-refugee-crisis-budgetary-measures-under-the-european-agenda-on-migration/

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