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

PURPOSE: definitive adoption of amending budget No 10 of the European Union for the financial year 2010.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2010/162/EU, Euratom.

CONTENT: the European Parliament adopted definitively amending budget 10/2009 of the European Union, in accordance with its resolution of 16 December 2009 (please refer to the summary of the resolution). It should be noted that the adoption of this amending budget was subject to a mixed procedure: it was began under the procedure defined in Article 272 of the Treaty establishing the European Community and Article 177 of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community and it was completed under Article 314 of the new Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

This amending budget concerns technical adjustments such as a net increase in the forecast of revenue after the revision of the forecasts of own resources and other revenue, a decrease in payment appropriations for a certain number of budget lines after taking into account the redeployments, and a decrease in commitment appropriations to be used to provide part of the financing of the second part of the European Economic Recovery Plan.