Amending budget 8/2015: own resources and European Data Protection Supervisor

On 20 October 2015, the Commission submitted to the Council draft amending budget (DAB) No 8 to the general budget for 2015.

This DAB concerns mainly the revision of the forecast of own resources that the Commission undertakes before the end of October each year.

As a result of this revision, the proposed DAB includes the following elements:

• the upward revision (EUR 800 million) of the forecast of traditional own resources (customs duties);
• the budgeting of the remainder of the 2014 VAT and GNI own resources balances (EUR 5.7 billion);
• the budgeting of the 2015 VAT and GNI own resources balances (EUR 1.4 billion).
• an update of the forecast for other revenue (EUR 1.5 billion);
• a reduction of EUR 123 474 in both commitment and payment appropriations in the budget of the European Data Protection Supervisor is also included in this DAB.

The overall impact in terms of revenue is a decrease in the GNI based contribution of EUR 9.4 billion.

On 10 November 2015, the Council adopted its position on DAB No 8/2015 as set out in the annex to the explanatory memorandum to the Council position on DAB 8/2015 (see technical annex to the Council position).