Amending budget 1/2010: impact of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty for the European Parliament

PURPOSE: definitive adoption of amending budget No 1 of the European Union for the financial year 2010.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2010/382/EU, Euratom.

CONTENT: the European Parliament has definitively adopted amending budget No 1 of the European Union in accordance with its resolution of 19 May 2010 (please refer to the summary of the resolution).

Amending budget No 1/2010 covers the impact related to the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on the administrative expenditure of the European Parliament. Additional budgetary and human resources are requested in order to enable the European Parliament to provide its Members, committees and political groups with the means necessary due to the extension of the codecision procedure and an increased legislative activity.

The net financial impact of AB No 1/2010 is EUR 9.4 million.