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Amending budget 5/2009: budgeting the surplus from the implementation of the budget year 2008

2009/2040(BUD)

PURPOSE: to present the Preliminary Draft Amending Budget (PDAB) No 5 to the general budget 2009.

CONTENT: the present PDAB No 5/2009 is intended to budget the surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2008. As provided for in the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities, under Article 15(3), it is the only subject of this PDAB and it has to be submitted within 15 days following the submission of the provisional accounts, which took place on 31 March 2009.

The implementation of the budget year 2008 shows a surplus of EUR 1 796 151 821 (not including contributions from EFTA-EEA) which the Commission proposes to enter as revenue in the 2009 budget. The surplus results from:

  • revenue for the financial year (+ EUR 121 584 382 284,55)
  • payments against current year appropriations (- EUR 115 549 972 381,55)
  • payment appropriations carried over to year N+1 (- EUR 3 912 336 487,46)
  • EFTA appropriations carried over from year N-1 (-EUR2 324 641,86)
  • cancellation of unused appropriations carried over from year N-1 (+EUR
  • 187 895 817,94)
  • exchange differences for the year (-EUR 497 711 435,90).

The budgeting of the surplus will diminish accordingly the global contribution of the Member States to the financing of the EU Budget. This global decrease by Member State will also be influenced by the updated own resources forecast (TOR, VAT and GNI) including the updated amount of the UK correction. In June, the Commission will present, in a separate Preliminary Draft Amending Budget, updated forecasts, which are expected to change further the amounts of the contributions by country