Amending budget 4/2008: surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget 2007

The European Parliament adopted by 612 votes to 13, with 10 abstentions, a resolution which aims to approve, unamended, the draft amending budget No 4/2008 of the European Union.

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

The Parliament recalls that this draft budgetonly aims to enter in the 2008 budget the surplus of the financial year 2007, amounting to EUR 1 528 833 290. This surplus is mainly due to an over-registering in revenue of EUR 72 957 868 and an under-spending in expenditure of EUR 1 579 386 212, and a negative balance of monetary exchange of -EUR 123 510 791.

Lastly, the Parliament indicates that, compared to previous years, the under-spending of payment appropriations has further decreased.