Amending budget 2/2010: 2009 surplus

The Committee on Budgets adopted the report drafted by László SURJÁN (EPP, HU) approving, unamended, the Council's position on Draft amending budget No 4/2010 of the European Union for the financial year 2010, Section III – Commission.

Members underline that the actual under-implementation of the 2009 budget is not limited to the surplus presented in Draft amending budget No 4/2010 but amounts to more than EUR 5 billion, taking also into account Amending budget No 10/2009. The calculation of 2009 budgetary under-implementation should take account of both Amending budgets Nos 4/2010 and 10/2009 according to the Members.

They warn that the year-end Amending budgets reducing the level of payment appropriations, while diminishing accordingly the global contribution of the Member States to the financing of the EU Budget, gives a distorted picture of budgetary implementation.