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DRAFT REPORT (00000/2024 – C100000/2024 – 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

BUDG-PR-765136

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Siegfried Mureşan

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The draft report concerns Draft amending budget No 5/2024, which adjusts payment appropriations, updates revenues, and introduces budget lines for the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism. Parliament approves the Council position.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes that Parliament approve the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2024, as set out in the motion for a resolution.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2024.
  2. Welcomes increased payment needs for the European Regional Development Fund and the Common Agricultural Policy as a sign of faster programme implementation.
  3. Notes that increased payment needs are almost entirely covered by fines and penalties, including the EUR 2.4 billion fine on Google.
  4. Welcomes budget lines for the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and underlines the need for sustained financial support to Ukraine.
  5. Calls on the Commission to provide details on liability aggregation and information as per its statement annexed to the Regulation establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism.
  6. Takes note of higher salary adjustments and pension costs, welcoming that most costs were covered by internal redeployments.
  7. Underlines that salary adjustments affect decentralised agencies, welcomes a 1.7% increase for those that could not redeploy, and calls for reflection on their budget treatment.
  8. Notes changes in appropriations for eu-LISA and EUAA, calls on the Commission to ensure EUAA can perform new tasks and absorb additional funds from 2025.
  9. Welcomes additional appropriations for CEPOL after the cyber-attack and insists on lessons learned and further support from CERT-EU.
  10. Concerned about delays in setting up the Anti-Money Laundering Authority, especially recruitment.
  11. Welcomes the possibility to include negative revenue for compensatory interest and calls on the Commission to provide the amount in 2025.

Who is affected

  • Member states implementing European Regional Development Fund and Common Agricultural Policy programmes.
  • Decentralised agencies of the Union, including eu-LISA, EUAA, CEPOL, and the Anti-Money Laundering Authority.
  • Ukraine, as beneficiary of the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and macro-financial assistance.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 44.5 million net increase in commitment appropriations.
  • EUR 2.95 billion net increase in payment appropriations.
  • EUR 7.2 million mobilised from the Flexibility Instrument.
  • EUR 68.5 million used from the Single Margin Instrument.
  • EUR 2.82 billion in fines and penalties paid up to October 2024.
  • EUR 139.9 million additional GNI contributions 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.