Amending budget 5/2004: other sections, follow-up of the 2004 enlargement, publication of the acquis, remunerations
On 1 April 2004, the European Parliament
adopted at first reading draft amending budget 3/2004 with a series of
amendments concerning the salaries and pensions of EU staff (please refer
to the summary for 1 April 2004). During its meeting on 5 and
6 April 2004, Parliament’s Committee on Budgets re-examined
draft amending budget 3/2004 as amended by the Council and confirmed, in
the draft report, all the budget amendments approved at first reading. On
16 April 2004, the Council informed the European Parliament by
letter that it would not alter the amendments adopted by the latter. On
19 April 2004, Parliament therefore decided to refer the draft
budget to the committee responsible (and to all the Parliament committees
involved for their opinion) with the Council’s letter of 16 April.
Amending budget 3/2004, which in the meantime had become 5/2004, was
therefore adopted on 21 April during the part-session in