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MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION

on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024, Sectionentering IIIthe –surplus Commissionof the financial year 2023

(00000/2024(12081/2024 – C100000/2024C100107/2024 – 2024/0089(BUD))

– having regard to Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

– having regard to Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which the Commission adopted on 9 April 2024 (COM(2024)0920),

– having regard to the position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which the Council adopted on [...]13 September 2024 and forwarded to Parliament on [...]16 (00000/2024September 2024 (12081/2024 – C100000/2024),C100107/2024),

– having regard to Rules 96 and 98 of its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A100000/2024),(A10-0005/2024),

A. whereas Draft amending budget 2/2024 is designed to enter in the 2024 budget the surplus from the financial year 2023, which amounts to EUR 633 million;

D. whereas, on the expenditure side, under-implementation in payments by the Commission totalled EUR 70 million (0,1% of authorised payment appropriations); whereas the other institutions cancelled EUR 48 million in payments, thereby maintaining the low under-implementation rate from the 2022 budget;

E. whereas, with Draft amending budget 2/2024, the annual GNI lump-sum reductions enjoyed by Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Austria amount to around EUR 5,4 billion net; whereas margins and flexibility in the Union budget remain very tight despite the revision of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) and the introduction of the new EURI Instrument to underwrite increased borrowing costs for the European Union Recovery Instrument;

F. whereas margins and flexibility in the Union budget remain very tight despite the revision of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) and the introduction of the new EURI Instrument to underwrite increased borrowing costs for the European Union Recovery Instrument, which are inherently volatile, causing uncertainty for the budget; whereas, in this challenging context, budgetary needs are increasing;

1. Takes note of Draft amending budget 2/2024 as submitted by the Commission, which is designed to budget the 2023 surplus, for an amount of EUR 633 million, in accordance with Article 18(3) of the Financial Regulation;

2. Welcomes the fact that the 2023 surplus is considerably lower than the 2022 surplus, pointing to improved budgetary forecasting and management by the Commission;

3. Underlines that the surplus reduces the total contribution of Member States to the financing of the 2024 budget at a time when financing needs remain high and space within the Union budget extremely limited; underlines that the budget must retain sufficient flexibility to enable the Union to cope with unforeseen events and new emerging priorities;

4. Recalls its long-standing position that fines and fees should be used as supplementary revenue for the Union budget and should not lead a corresponding decrease in GNI-based contributions;

5. Takes note of the calculation of the adjusted annual GNI lump-sum reductions for the five beneficiary Member States, which amount to around EUR 5,4 billion net; highlights the fact that these rebates are inflation-linked and have therefore increased at a higher rate than the MFF ceilings, which are adjusted annually on the basis of the 2 % deflator; stresses that this anomaly increases the burden on the other Member States;

6. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024;

6. Emphasises the need for sustainable revenue for the Union budget; deplores, therefore, the absence of progress in the Council on the reform of the own resources system in line with the roadmap in the Interinstitutional Agreement; recalls its position in support of the amended Commission proposals and urges the Council to adopt those proposals swiftly in order to increase the own resources available to the Union budget;

7. Instructs its President to declare that Amending budget No 2/2024 has been definitively adopted and arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;

7. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024;

8. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the other institutions and bodies concerned and the national parliaments.

8. Instructs its President to declare that Amending budget No 2/2024 has been definitively adopted and arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;

9. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the other institutions and bodies concerned and the national parliaments.

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INFORMATION ON ADOPTION IN COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

Date adopted

7.10.2024

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Members present for the final vote

Georgios Aftias, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Olivier Chastel, Tamás Deutsch, Nikolas Farantouris, Angéline Furet, Jens Geier, Thomas Geisel, Jean-Marc Germain, Andrzej Halicki, Alexander Jungbluth, Fabienne Keller, Janusz Lewandowski, Giuseppe Lupo, Ignazio Roberto Marino, Siegfried Mureşan, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Victor Negrescu, Danuše Nerudová, João Oliveira, Ruggero Razza, Karlo Ressler, Bogdan Rzońca, Julien Sanchez, Lukas Sieper, Joachim Streit, Nils Ušakovs, Lucia Yar, Auke Zijlstra

Substitutes present for the final vote

Mohammed Chahim, Jonás Fernández, Niclas Herbst, Rasmus Nordqvist, Michele Picaro, Jussi Saramo, Kai Tegethoff

Members under Rule 216(7) present for the final vote

Tobias Cremer, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL IN COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

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