Amending budget 10/2010: Section III, Commission: increase in the forecast of revenue; decrease in payment appropriations; modifications in Heading 1a; preservation and management of natural resources; type 2 European Schools

PURPOSE: presentation of the Draft Amending Budget No 10 to the general budget 2010.

CONTENT: the Draft Amending Budget (DAB) No 10 for the year 2010 covers the following elements:

• a net increase in the forecast of revenue (EUR 466 million) after the revision of the forecasts of own resources and other revenue;
• a decrease of payment appropriations in budget lines for headings 1a, 1b, 2 and 4 (EUR 755.6 million), after taking into account the redeployments proposed in the so-called "Global Transfer" rebalancing payments across budget lines to take account of progress in budget implementation thus far;
• the creation of a new budget item 06 04 14 04 for the financing of projects in areas of energy efficiency and energy from renewable sources under the European Economic Recovery Plan;
• a decrease in commitment appropriations of EUR 15 million for some measures under heading 1a;
• a decrease in commitment and payment appropriations of EUR 330 million under heading 2 on the budget article 05 02 03 Refunds on non-Annex 1 products and on the budget article 05 02 12 Milk and milk products, and a further reduction of EUR 28 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 5 million in payment appropriations from the reserve;
• the creation of budget item 26 01 51 31 EU contribution to the so-called "Type 2" European Schools. These schools belong to the national system in a Member State, with one or more language sections capable of delivering the European Baccalaureate. These schools are normally located near a Union body, e.g. an institution, an agency or a research centre, and host pupils from the Member State where the school is located as well as the children of the Union personnel working there. The EUR 4.83 million to be allocated to budget item 26 01 51 31 will be made available by reducing existing appropriations (commitments and payments) of heading 5 in the 2010 budget for which the needs in 2010 are lower than originally estimated. Globally, the total appropriations available to the Commission will not be modified. It should be noted that five schools received an accreditation on the European schooling (Parma (IT), Dunshauglin (IRL), Heraklion (GR), Helsinki (FIN), Strasbourg (FR).

The overall consequence on expenditure is a reduction of EUR 373 million in commitments and EUR 1 090,6 million in payments.