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Amending budget 10/2009: increase in the forecast of revenue; decrease in payment appropriations; European Economic Recovery Plan

2009/2185(BUD)

The European Parliament adopted by 559 votes to 25, with 10 abstentions, a resolution approving, unamended, the draft amending budget No 10/2009 of the European Union for the financial year 2009.

It recalls that this draft amending budget covers the following items:

·        a net increase in the forecast of revenue for an amount of EUR 478 700 000 after the revision of the forecasts of own resources and other revenue,

·        a decrease of payment appropriations in budget lines for headings 1a, 2, and 4 for an amount of EUR 2 768 700 000 after taking into account the redeployments proposed in the so-called "global transfer",

·        a decrease in commitment appropriations under headings 2 and 5 for an amount of EUR 359 000 000, leading to a corresponding increase in the respective margin, in order to provide part of the financing of the second part of the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP).

Parliament recalls that on 11 November 2009 the Commission informed Parliament and the Council that the PDAB needed further adjustments concerning: (i) an increase in the forecast of revenue; (ii) a decrease under heading 2 concerning European Agriculture Guarantee Fund (EAGF) appropriations, both in commitments and in payments; (iii) a decrease under heading 2 concerning European Agriculture Rural Development Fund (EARDF) payment appropriations.

In addition, it highlights that it was agreed at the conciliation meeting of 18 November 2009 to accept this amending budget as adjusted on 11 November 2009, and as modified during the conciliation itselffor further additional amounts of EUR 40 million from Section II (Council), EUR 2 million from Section VI (European Economic and Social Committee) and EUR 500 000 from Section VII (Committee of the Regions) of the 2009 budget.

Recalling that the purpose of Draft amending budget No 10/2009 is to formally enter this budgetary adjustment into the 2009 budget, the European Parliament approves the draft amending budget No 10/2009 as amended, on 18 November 2009, at the conciliation meeting with the Council.