Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on EAGF expenditure – Early Warning System No 4-5/2015

This report presents an update of the provisional 2015 budget execution for the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF). In particular, Annex 1 presents the comparison between the actual level of the implementation of the EAGF budget for the period 16 October 2014 to 31 March 2015 and the forecasted expenditure profile. The latter results from the application of the indicator to the level of the budgetary appropriations. The indicator is established on the basis of the provisions of Article 28 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy.

Under Article 43 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, the revenue originating from financial corrections under accounting and conformity clearance decisions, from irregularities and from the milk levy is designated as revenue assigned to the financing of EAGF expenditure. The assigned revenue can be used to cover the financing of any EAGF expenditure. If part of this revenue is not used within the budget year, then, this part will be automatically carried forward to the following budget year .

The 2015 EAGF budget, as adopted by the Budgetary Authority included both the Commission's estimates of the needs to finance the expected expenditure for market measures and direct payments, and the estimates of the assigned revenue which was expected to be collected in budget year 2015 as well as the assigned revenue carried over from the budget year 2014.

At the time of establishing the 2015 budget, the Commission’s estimates of the assigned revenue amounted to €1,768.6 million.

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