Amending budget 6/2013: own resources; other revenue; Union trust funds for external actions

PURPOSE: presentation of the Draft Amending Budget No 6 to the 2013 budget.

CONTENT: Draft Amending Budget (DAB) No 6 for the year 2013 concerns the following:

• a 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 2013, resulting in a change in the distribution between Member States of their own resources contributions to the EU budget;
• a revision of the forecast of other revenue, arising from the fine of EUR 561 million imposed on Microsoft (Microsoft failed to comply with EU competition rules, acknowledged the fact and paid the fine without appeal);
• the creation of the necessary budgetary structure to accommodate the creation of the Union trust funds foreseen in Article 187 of the Financial regulation (this Article foresees that, for emergency, post-emergency or thematic actions, the Commission may create trust funds under an agreement concluded with other donors – these trust funds will be managed by the Commission and will be subject to EU supervision).

The impact of this DAB 6 on the revenue side of the budget (B2013 + DAB 1 to 5) is the following:

• Customs duties : - EUR 1 892 900 000
• Value added tax : - EUR 383 805 175
• Gross National income : + EUR 1 715 705 175
• Miscellaneous revenue (fines) : + EUR 561 000 000

Total : EUR 0.