Supplementary and amending budget 1/1998

The Parliament accepted the Council's draft supplementary and amending budget 1/98 of 8 December 1998 without amendment. The Parliament's Rapporteurs were Mr. Stanislaw TILLICH (PPE, D) and Lord Tomlinson (PES, UK). This will enable the EU to use unused amounts of some EUR 900 million to provide extra money for food aid to Russia (400 million), aid to Eastern Europe (100 million), and the Social Fund (100 million). A further EUR 300 million will be for other policies, of which some 150 million will go towards the purchase of Parliament buildings.�