Amending budget 3/2022: surplus of the financial year 2021

The Council adopted its position on the draft amending budget No 2 to the general budget for 2022: entering the surplus of the financial year 2021.

As a reminder, on 12 April 2022, the Commission submitted to the Council draft amending budget (DAB) No 2 to the general budget for 2022 concerning the budgeting of the surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2021.

The implementation of the budget year 2021 shows a surplus of EUR 3 227.06 million resulting from:

(a) A positive outturn in the revenue part of the budget (+EUR 2 574.76 million) of which:

- Title 1 (Own resources): + EUR 1 638.78 million;

- Title 2 (Surpluses, balances and adjustments): + EUR 3.42 million;

- Title 3 (Administrative revenue): - EUR 143.45 million;

- Title 4 (Financial revenue, default interest and fines): + EUR 1 110.77 million;

- Title 6 (Revenue, contributions and refunds related to Union policies): - EUR 34.77 million.

(b) An under-implementation on the expenditure side of the budget (-EUR 652.30 million), notably of:

- appropriations authorised in the 2021 budget (Commission and other institutions): - EUR 198.97 million;

- cancellation of appropriations carried over from 2019 (Commission and other institutions): - EUR 327.47 million;

- exchange rate variations: - EUR 125.87 million.

The budgeting of this surplus will diminish accordingly in line with the global contribution of the Member States to the financing of the EU budget in 2022.

On 18 July 2022, the Council adopted its position on draft amending budget (DAB) No 2 to the general budget 2021 as set out in the technical annex to its explanatory memorandum.