Amending budget 2/2023: surplus of the financial year 2022

On 12 April 2023, the Commission submitted to the Council draft amending budget (DAB) No 2 to the general budget for 2023 concerning the budgeting of the surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2022.

The implementation of the financial year 2022 shows a surplus of EUR 2 519.01 million, which results from:

(a) a positive outturn in the revenue part of the budget (+EUR 2 198.44 million) of which:

- Title 1 (Own resources): +EUR 1 830.26 million

- Title 2 (Surpluses, balances and adjustments): +EUR 246.89 million

- Title 3 (Administrative revenue): +EUR 170.32 million

- Title 4 (Financial revenue, default interest and fines): +EUR 141.44 million

- Title 6 (Revenue, contributions and refunds related to Union policies): -EUR 190.47 million

(b) an under-implementation on the expenditure side of the budget (-EUR 320.57 million), notably of:

- appropriations authorised in the budget 2022 (Commission and other institutions): -EUR 286.95 million

- cancellation of appropriations carried over from previous years (Commission and other institutions): -EUR 130.19 million

- exchange rate variations on expenditure: +EUR 96.57 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 2023.

The Council adopted its position on DAB No 2 to the general budget for 2023 as set out in the technical annex contained in Addendum 1 to the explanatory memorandum.