Amending budget 3/2012: surplus from the 2011 financial year

PURPOSE: definitive adoption of amending budget No 3 of the European Union for the financial year 2012.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2012/467/EU, Euratom.

CONTENT: the European Parliament definitively adopted amending budget 3/2012 of the European Union, in accordance with its resolution of 5 July 2012 (please refer to the summary of the resolution of that date). This amending budget aims to enter in the 2012 budget the surplus from the 2011 financial year (EUR 1 496 968 014).

The budgetisation of the surplus will fall by as much as the overall contribution of Member States to the funding of the EU budget, as stipulated in the final budgetary act (new breakdown of Member States’ contributions to the Union’s budget, recalculated taking into account the deduction of this surplus).