Draft Amending Budget N° 6 To The General Budget 2012 General Statement Of Revenue Statement Of Expenditure By Section. Section III – Commission

Draft Amending Budget (DAB) No 6 for the year 2012 concerns the following:

– the usual update in the forecast of revenue after the latest revision of the forecasts of own resources and other revenue;

– an increase of payment appropriations of nearly EUR 9,0 billion across headings 1a, 1b, 2, 3a and 4 of the multi-annual financial framework, with the aim of meeting outstanding needs to the end of the year, so that commitments can be honoured, financial penalties avoided, and beneficiaries can receive the funds envisaged by the agreed EU policies, for which the commitments were authorised in previous annual budgets. The Commission has identified some sources of redeployment for a total of EUR 47,4 million;

– a reduction in the level of commitment appropriations in the budget of EUR 133,4 million, to take account of the latest state of implementation and revised assessments of real needs to the year end.

Variations in own resources, together with a signify cant increase in the revenue from fines and interest payment of EUR 3 525 million, lead to a total net increase in revenue of EUR 3 080,8 million, which will lessen the effect of the DAB 6 on Member States' GNI-based contributions.

The total amount of payment appropriations requested is EUR 138 752,8 million, corresponding to 1,08 % of the European Union's GNI. This leaves a margin of EUR 3 451,4 million under the 2012 ceiling for payments of the multi-annual financial framework (MFF).

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)632: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:632:FIN

ESO: Background Information: 2012/70/EU, Euratom: Definitive adoption of the European Union's general budget for the financial year 2012 http://www.europeansources.info/record/2012-70-eu-euratom-definitive-adoption-of-the-european-unions-general-budget-for-the-financial-year-2012/

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