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Amending budget 3/2013: surplus from the budget year 2012

2013/2070(BUD)

The European Parliament adopted by 607 votes to 73, with 17 abstentions, a resolution on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2013 of the European Union for the financial year 2013, Section III – Commission.

Parliament recalls that draft amending budget No 3/2013 aims to enter in the 2013 budget the surplus from the 2012 financial year, amounting to EUR 1 023.3 million.

The main components of that surplus are:

  • an under-spend in expenditure of EUR 244.3 million,
  • a positive outturn on income of more than EUR 719.1 million,
  • a positive exchange rate difference of EUR 59.9 million.

Taking note of draft amending budget No 3/2013, which is devoted solely to the budgeting of the 2012 surplus, for an amount of EUR 1 023.3 million, Parliament recalls that the adoption of this Draft amending budget will reduce the share of the GNI contribution from Member States to the Union budget and therefore partly compensate their contribution to the financing of Amending budget No 2/2013.

At the same time, the European Parliament approves, unamended, the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2013.