Amending budget 6/2006: revision of the forecasts for traditional own resources and of VAT and GNI balances, decrease of appropriations for the EAGGF and the Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund

PURPOSE: final adoption of amending budget 6/2006.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2006/995/EC, Euratom.

CONTENT: the European Parliament has definitively adopted amending budget 6/2006 of the European Union, in line with its resolution of 13 December 2006 (refer to resolution summary).

This amending budget essentially aims to reduce Member States’ contributions to the 2006 budget by EUR 7.373 billion.