Amending budget 4/2010: OLAF; revision of the forecast of TOR, VAT and GNI bases; 2006, 2008 and 2009 UK corrections; gross reductions of GNI payments of Sweden and the Netherlands in 2010

PURPOSE: to present Draft Amending Budget No 5 (DAB 5/2010) to the 2010 budget.

CONTENT: DAB No 5/2010 covers the following elements:

• the modifications to the establishment plan of OLAF, without additional financial provisions;
• the revision of the forecast of Traditional Own Resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties and sugar sector levies), VAT and GNI bases, the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing and revision of financing of GNI reductions in favour of the Netherlands and Sweden in 2010, resulting in a change in the distribution between Member States of their own resources contributions to the EU budget.