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MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION

P10_TA(2024)0049

on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 -5/2024: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates

(14477/2024 – C100186/2024 – 2024/0252(BUD))

Committee on Budgets

PE765.136

European Parliament resolution of 27 November 2024 on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates (14477/2024 – C10-0186/2024 – 2024/0252(BUD))

The European Parliament,

B. whereas, in relation to expenditure, Draft amending budget No 5/2024 entails a net increase of EUR 44,5 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 2,95 billion in payment appropriations; whereas, owing to the absence of any available margin under Headings 2b, 5 and 7 of the multiannual financial framework (MFF), a further EUR 7,2 million is proposed to be mobilised from the Flexibility Instrument and an additional EUR 68,5 million to be used from compartment (a) of the Single Margin Instrument;

C. whereas, on the revenue side, Draft amending budget No 5/2024 enters into the 2024 budget definitive fines and penalties paid up to October 2024, totalling EUR 2.822,82 billion, meaning that additional GNI contributions of EUR 139,9 million are required to meet the payment needs;

D. whereas Draft amending budget No 5/2024 also introduces new revenue and expenditure budget lines for the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism, under which support will be provided through loans serviced and repaid by future flows of revenue from immobilised Russian sovereign assets;

1. Takes note of Draft amending budget No 5/2024 as submitted by the Commission;

2. Welcomes the increased payment needs for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), coupled with those for the Common Agricultural Policy in the Global Transfer (DEC 11/24), as a sign that programme implementation is gathering pace after a worryingly slow start in the 2021-2027 period;

6. Welcomes the inclusion of revenue and expenditure budget lines for the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism; underlines the importance of sustained financial support to Ukraine in a context where financing under the Ukraine Facility and existing macro-financial assistance (MFA) arrangements falls short of needs;

7. Recalls that additional MFA loans will be underwritten by the budget’s headroom and reiterates its call to the Commission to provide the budgetary authority with details on the aggregation of liabilities to the headroom contingent on borrowing and lending operations; expects the Commission to provide the Parliament and the Council with all necessary information as per its statement annexed to Regulation (EU) 2024/2773 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

8. Takes note of the higher-than-budgeted salary adjustment for 2024, which impacts both remuneration and pensions, with a higher-than-forecast number of new pensioners in 2024 further pushing up pension costs; welcomes the fact that almost all additional costs across institutions have been covered through internal redeployments and that recourse to the Single Margin Instrument is therefore contained;

16. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.

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