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

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

A-10-2024-0017

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Siegfried Mureşan

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Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2024, which adjusts payment appropriations, updates revenues, and introduces budget lines for the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism. The resolution welcomes increased payments for ERDF and CAP, notes revenue from fines covers most payment needs, and calls for progress on own resources reform. It also addresses salary adjustments, agency funding, and cybersecurity, and requests information on compensatory interest and MFA loan headroom.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets proposes that Parliament approve the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2024.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2024, thereby adopting the amending budget.
  2. Welcomes increased payment needs for ERDF and CAP as a sign of faster programme implementation.
  3. Notes that STEP rule changes positively impacted ERDF implementation and that increased payments should relieve pressure on 2025-2027.
  4. Notes increased payment needs are almost entirely covered by fines, including the EUR 2.4 billion Google fine.
  5. Deplores lack of progress on own resources reform and urges Council and Member States to adopt amended proposals swiftly.
  6. Welcomes budget lines for Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and underlines importance of sustained financial support to Ukraine.
  7. Calls on Commission to provide details on aggregation of liabilities to headroom and all necessary information as per its statement.
  8. Takes note of higher salary adjustment and welcomes that additional costs were covered by internal redeployments.
  9. Underlines salary adjustment affects decentralised agencies; welcomes 1.7% increase for those that could not redeploy.
  10. Notes increase for eu-LISA but concern about decrease for EUAA; calls on Commission to work with both agencies.
  11. Welcomes additional appropriations for CEPOL after cyber-attack and insists on lessons learned and further CERT-EU support.
  12. Concerned by delays in setting up the Anti-Money Laundering Authority, especially recruitment.

Who is affected

  • Member States: benefit from increased ERDF and CAP payments, but may need to contribute additional GNI.
  • Decentralised agencies: face salary adjustment costs; some receive 1.7% increase in Union contribution.
  • eu-LISA and EUAA: receive changes in appropriations; Commission to ensure they can perform tasks.
  • CEPOL: receives additional appropriations after cyber-attack; CERT-EU to provide further support.
  • Anti-Money Laundering Authority: set-up delays, especially recruitment, are a concern.

Figures and deadlines

  • Net increase of EUR 44.5 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 2.95 billion in payment appropriations.
  • EUR 7.2 million mobilised from Flexibility Instrument and EUR 68.5 million from Single Margin Instrument.
  • Fines and penalties totalling EUR 2.82 billion; additional GNI contributions of EUR 139.9 million required.
  • EUR 2.4 billion competition fine imposed on Google.
  • 1.7% increase in Union contribution for agencies that could not redeploy.

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.