Amending budget 1/2008: EU Solidarity Fund, budgetary structure for the REA and the ERCEA, establishment plan of FRONTEX, Galileo Programme, budget article on Exceptional crisis expenditure

The European Parliament adopted, by 617 votes to 11 with 17 abstentions, a legislative resolution, and took note of Preliminary draft amending budget N° 1/2008 established by the Council.

The resolution had been tabled for consideration in plenary by Kyösti VIRRANKOSKI (ALDE, FI) on behalf of the Committee on Budgets.

Parliament recalled that the draft amending budget covered the following points:

• the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund for an amount of EUR 162.4 million in commitment and payment appropriations, relating to major storm damage in the United Kingdom in June and July 2007,
• the creation of the necessary budgetary structure to accommodate the Research
• Executive Agency (REA) and the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA);
• modification of the establishment plan of the European Agency for the Management of the Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX),
• the creation of budget item 06 01 04 12 - Galileo Programme - expenditure on administrative management;
• the creation of budget article 27 01 11 - Exceptional crisis expenditure - to enable the financing of exceptional expenditure linked to a declared crisis. The line will be endowed with a "p.m.".