Press Release: EP backs carry-over of EU funding to 2015-2017 for late-starter national programmes

The European Parliament agreed on 15 April 2015 to changes to ceilings in the European Union’s Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020, to help fund 300 state-managed programmes, in all EU member states, that started too late to qualify for EU funding in 2014.

These changes would allow €21.1 billion in unused commitment appropriations to be carried over from 2014 to 2015-17.

The first tranche of the €21.1 billion was scheduled to be transferred to 2015 by a draft amending budget (DAB2/2015) to be voted in Budgets Committee on 16 April 2015. This would add €16.5 billion to the commitment appropriations available for 2015.

The remaining tranches, of €4.5 billion for 2016 and €100 million for 2017, were to be handled in separate draft amending budgets.

The Council of the European Union was scheduled to adopt its formal position on the changes to the Multiannual Financial Framework ceilings and on draft amending budget DAB2/2015 on 21 April 2015.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Council agrees on revised MFF for 2014-2020 http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-council-agrees-on-revised-mff-for-2014-2020/

ESO: Background information: EU budget: Council preserves funds for promoting growth and jobs http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-eu-budget-council-preserves-funds-for-promoting-growth-and-jobs/

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