Amending budget 6/2009: revision of forecasts of TOR, VAT and GNI bases; 2005 and 2008 UK corrections; financing of the gross reductions in GNI payments of Sweden and the Netherlands in 2009

The European Parliament adopted, by 600 votes to 8, with 33 abstentions, a resolution approving, unamended, the draft amending budget No 6/2009.

Parliament recalls that the sole purpose of this draft amending budget is to incorporate formally the following technical adjustments into the 2009 budget:

• the revision of the forecast of traditional own resources as well as the Value-added Tax (VAT) and Gross National Income (GNI) bases;
• the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing;
• the revision of financing of GNI reductions in favour of the Netherlands and Sweden in 2009.