PURPOSE: final adoption of amending budget 1/2004.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2004/346/EC, Euratom. CONTENT: the European Parliament
has finally adopted amending budget 1/2004 of the European Union in
accordance with its resolution of 9 March 2004 (please refer to
the summary of the resolution). This amending budget aims to finance the
Union’s supplementary expenditure linked
to enlargement from 1 May 2004. It fully respects the outcome of
the interinstitutional negotiations established by the general budget
procedure 2004 (please see BUD/2003/2001) and has the following main
features: - volume of the budget for the new Member States: supplementary
expenditure for the 10 new Member States amounts to approximately
EUR 5 105 billion in payment appropriations; - the total
volume of the 2004 budget for the EU-25 after enlargement is
EUR 99 724 billion in payment appropriations; - the budget
amendments only apply to the following headings ·agriculture· (heading 1),
·structural operations· (heading 2) and ·internal policies· (heading 3) of
the Union’s budget and the payment of lump-sum compensation to the new
Member States (heading 8) aimed at ensuring their net beneficiary
situation.