Enlargement: the financial implications of the accession of Romania and Bulgaria

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the draft by Bárbara DÜHRKOP DÜHRKOP (PES, ES) & Reimer BÖGE (EPP-ED, DE). In a trialogue, successfully concluded minutes before the voting session, Parliament and Council managed to agree on a joint declaration on the financial implications of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania. The declaration ensures that, based on the assumption that the two countries join in 2007, the classification entered in the annex of the accession treaties will be deemed as non compulsory expenditure after 2009. The financing of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania will not jeopardise existing multiannual programmes. The financing of the accession Bulgaria and Romania will be made without prejudice of the decisions on the next financial perspective.