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REPORT (13195/2024 – C100109/2024 – 2024/0185(BUD))

On the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agencies

A-10-2024-0007

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Siegfried Mureşan

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Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2024, which updates revenue from own resources and adjusts funding for decentralised agencies. It notes lower customs duties and UK contribution forecasts, leading to higher GNI contributions, and calls for improved forecasting. It stresses the need for sustainable revenue, urges progress on own resources reform, and highlights concerns about agency funding and redeployments.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets proposes that Parliament approve the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2024 without amendment.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2024.
  2. Welcomes the draft amending budget as submitted by the Commission.
  3. Notes that lower own resources and UK contribution lead to an increase in GNI contributions of EUR 5.63 billion.
  4. Calls on the Commission to examine scope for improving its forecasting of customs duties and the UK contribution.
  5. Underlines that GNI lump-sum reductions for five beneficiary Member States amount to just under EUR 5.4 billion net and that these rebates are inflation-linked.
  6. Deplores the absence of progress in the Council on own resources reform and urges swift adoption of amended Commission proposals.
  7. Recalls its position that fines and fees should be used as supplementary revenue for the Union budget.
  8. Notes adjustments to decentralised agencies' budgets and recalls that agencies must have necessary staff and budget to fulfil mandates.
  9. Regrets that EUR 1.5 billion has been or is proposed to be redeployed from programmes to agencies in the current MFF.
  10. Notes the EUR 2 million increase for Eurojust due to inflationary pressure and calls for reflection on agencies' budget treatment.

Who is affected

  • Decentralised agencies, including the European Medicines Agency and Eurojust, receive budget adjustments.
  • Member States contributing to the EU budget face higher GNI contributions due to lower other revenue.
  • Five beneficiary Member States receive GNI lump-sum reductions of just under EUR 5.4 billion net.

Figures and deadlines

  • Customs duties forecast is 18.3% below the May 2023 forecast.
  • VAT base forecast is 0.6% below the May 2023 forecast.
  • Non-recycled plastic packaging waste forecast is up 0.6% compared to May 2023.
  • Total EU GNI base is 0.3% higher than the May 2023 forecast.
  • 2024 United Kingdom contribution stands at EUR 2.38 billion, a reduction of EUR 1.52 billion.
  • Fines and penalties increase initial forecast by EUR 513 million.
  • Net increase of EUR 12 million for decentralised agencies and EUR 13.2 million from the Flexibility Instrument.
  • GNI contributions increase by EUR 5.63 billion.

Legal basis: Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community.