Amending budget 2/2016: surplus of the financial year 2015

2016/2051(BUD)

PURPOSE: definitive adoption of amending budget No 2/2016.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Definitive adoption (EU, Euratom) 2016/1622 of amending budget No 2 of the European Union for the financial year 2016.

CONTENT: the European Parliament definitively adopted the amending budget No 2/2016 of the European Union for the financial year 2016 in accordance with its recommendation of 6 July 2016 (please refer to the summary of the resolution).

This amending budget is intended to enter in the budget 2016 the surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2015. This surplus amounts to EUR 1 349 116 813.74.

The budgeting of the surplus will diminish accordingly the global contribution of the Member States to the financing of the 2016 EU Budget.