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Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023

TA-10-2024-0023 · P10_TA(2024)0023 · PE763.033

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Parliament approved the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget. It welcomes the lower surplus, stresses the need for budget flexibility and sustainable revenue, and urges Council to adopt own resources reform.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024, entering the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million.
  2. Welcomes that the 2023 surplus is considerably lower than the 2022 surplus, indicating improved budgetary forecasting and management.
  3. Underlines that the surplus reduces Member States' contributions to the 2024 budget while financing needs remain high and budget space is limited.
  4. Recalls that fines and fees should be supplementary revenue and not reduce GNI-based contributions.
  5. Notes the adjusted annual GNI lump-sum reductions for five Member States of about EUR 5.4 billion net, highlights their inflation-linked increase, and stresses the burden on other Member States.
  6. Emphasises the need for sustainable revenue and deplores the lack of progress in Council on own resources reform, urging swift adoption of amended proposals.

Who is affected

  • Member States: their contributions to the 2024 budget are reduced by the surplus; five beneficiary states receive lump-sum reductions.
  • Council: urged to adopt own resources reform proposals.

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.
  • EUR 1,766 million in financial revenue, default interest and fines; customs duties EUR 1,649 million below expected.
  • EUR 107 million surplus in administrative revenue.
  • EUR 70 million: under-implementation in payments by the Commission; EUR 48 million: cancellations by other institutions.
  • Around EUR 5.4 billion net: annual GNI lump-sum reductions for Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Austria.

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