Amending and supplementary budget 3/2002

PURPOSE : to present the preliminary draft Supplementary and Amending budget No 3 to the budget for 2002. CONTENT : this Preliminary Draft Supplementary and Amending Budget (PDSAB) No 3/2002 contains the following elements: As regards revenue: - the budgeting of the definitive amount of the positive balance of budget 2001, of the surplus from the Guarantee Fund for external measures and of fines in the competition field; - the adjustment of collection costs in 2001 related to the application of the new own resources decision; - the creation of budget lines with a token entry for the contribution of the research fund for coal and steel to the administrative expenditure of the Commission, and for the contribution of Norway and Iceland to the Eurodac project; - the updating of forecasts of customs duties, VAT and GNP bases for 2002. As regards expenditure in section III - Commission: the increase in administrative appropriations for the payment of the interest of fines paid back by the Commission, in the competition field, when the fines were later reduced of cancelled. As regards section V - Court of Auditors, the addition of remarks under title 2 in expenditure, in order to cover the risk of damages to buildings due to industrial or terrorist actions. As regards section VI - Economic and Social Committee, the amendment of the establishment plan and the addition of administrative expenditure related to the taking-over by the Committee of the tasks associated to the current ECSC Consultative Committee. In complement to the request of the Economic and Social Committee, the Commission states that the reduction of its activities associated with the expiry of the ECSC Treaty has been fully taken into account in budget 2002 and in the Preliminary Draft Budget 2003, as regards both appropriations and staff.�