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DRAFT REPORT (12345/2024 – C100000/2024 – 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

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Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Siegfried Mureşan

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The draft report approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2024, which updates revenue from own resources and adjusts budgets of decentralised agencies. It notes changes in own resources forecasts, a reduced UK contribution, and increased GNI contributions, and calls for swift adoption of own resources proposals. It highlights redeployments from programmes to agencies and suggests reflecting on agency budget treatment in the post-2027 MFF.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets, through its rapporteur, proposes to 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 decreases in own resources other than GNI and the UK contribution lead to an increase in GNI contributions of EUR 5.63 billion.
  4. Stresses that GNI lump-sum reductions for five Member States amount to just under EUR 5.4 billion net and are inflation-linked, increasing the burden on other Member States.
  5. Urges the Council to adopt swiftly Commission proposals on own resources and recalls that fines and fees should be supplementary revenue.
  6. Notes adjustments to decentralised agencies' budgets, often linked to new legislation, and that additional resources may reduce programme envelopes.
  7. Regrets that EUR 1.5 billion has been or is proposed to be redeployed from programmes to agencies in the current MFF.
  8. Notes the EUR 2 million increase for Eurojust due to inflation and calls for reflection on agency budgets in the post-2027 MFF.

Who is affected

  • Decentralised agencies, including the European Medicines Agency and Eurojust, receive budget adjustments.
  • Member States contributing GNI face increased contributions due to lower other own resources and UK contribution.
  • Five beneficiary Member States receive GNI lump-sum reductions.

Figures and deadlines

  • Customs duties forecast is 18.3% below May 2023 forecast.
  • VAT base forecast is 0.6% below May 2023 forecast.
  • Plastic packaging waste forecast is up 0.6% compared to May 2023.
  • Total EU GNI base is 0.3% higher than May 2023 forecast.
  • UK contribution stands at EUR 2.38 billion, a reduction of EUR 1.52 billion.
  • Fines and penalties forecast increased by EUR 513 million.
  • Net increase of EUR 12 million for decentralised agencies and EUR 13.2 million from Flexibility Instrument.
  • Increase in GNI contributions of 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.