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DRAFT REPORT (00000/2024 – C100000/2024 – 2024/0089(BUD))

On the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 entering the surplus of the financial year 2023

BUDG-PR-763033

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Siegfried Mureşan

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The draft report concerns Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget. It approves the Council position and notes the surplus components and the impact on member state contributions.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes that Parliament approve the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024.

Key points

  1. Takes note of Draft amending budget 2/2024, which budgets the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million in accordance with Article 18(3) of the Financial Regulation.
  2. Welcomes that the 2023 surplus is considerably lower than the 2022 surplus, indicating improved budgetary forecasting and management by the Commission.
  3. Underlines that the surplus reduces the total contribution of member states to the 2024 budget at a time when financing needs remain high and budget space is extremely limited.
  4. Recalls its long-standing position that fines and fees should be used as supplementary revenue and should not lead to a corresponding decrease in GNI-based contributions.
  5. Takes note of the adjusted annual GNI lump-sum reductions for five member states, amounting to around EUR 5.4 billion net, and highlights that these rebates are inflation-linked and have increased more than the MFF ceilings, stressing the burden on other member states.
  6. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024.

Who is affected

  • Member states, as the surplus reduces their total contributions to the 2024 budget.
  • Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Austria, as beneficiaries of GNI lump-sum reductions.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 633 million: surplus from financial year 2023 entered in the 2024 budget.
  • EUR 238.7 million: positive outturn on revenue.
  • EUR 393.9 million: under-spend on expenditure.
  • EUR 1 766 million: financial revenue, default interest and fines.
  • EUR 1 649 million: customs duties below expected figure.
  • EUR 107 million: surplus in administrative revenue.
  • EUR 70 million: under-implementation in payments by the Commission (0.1% of authorised payment appropriations).
  • EUR 48 million: payments cancelled by other institutions.

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.